| Title: | Voting for their favorites |
| Description: | Caption: "Voting for their favorites--Nurse Dolores Villani acts as poll watcher at elections of the Patients Council of the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road, while Helen Motchan casts her vote and Morris Rosenblum waits his turn. [The two patients are both sitting in wheelchairs.] Three hundred and six patients cast their votes for 48 nominees seeking the 15 seats on the Patients Council. The council's aim is to improve the morale of the patients by stimulating interests, developing recreational programs, and providing entertainment for the patients." |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| Creator: | Sharp, Jay. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Mar. 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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| Subject: |
Hospital patients [4] Hospitals [5] Nurses [6] Sanatoriums [7] Voting [8] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Portraits. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
| ID: | HOSP 0756 |