Sign of the times

Sign of the times
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Title: Sign of the times
Description:

Caption: "Sign of the times--Department store price war spreads to Beth-El Hospital's fund drive to equip its new $2,200,000 additions. Displaying the 98-cent sign, a two cent slash from the normal dollar contest contribution, is Helen Newman, a volunteer leader in the drive. The hospital hopes to open its new clinic, cancer center, and six-story wing at Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Parkway within 90 days."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brownsville (York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Jun[e] 6, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Publicity Photographers."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Fund raising
Hospitals
Signs and signboards
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 0016