About This Item


  • TitleHappy birthday!
  • Call NumberHOSP_0338
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Happy birthday!--Naomi Hoffman, 4, Victoria Dumbrowski, 22 months, and Jerry Nierenberg, 16 months, patients in the out-patient cerebral palsy clinic at the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Brooklyn, have a happy time blowing out the candles on the anniversary birthday cake celebrating the second year of the clinic's opening. Holding on to the youngsters are, left to right, Mrs. Ditha Kandell, cerebral palsy occupational therapist, Dr. Leo Koven, director of the cerebral palsy clinic, and Mrs. Audrey Smith Hofnung, speech therapist."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Nov. 23, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAnniversaries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cake -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Occupational therapists -- New York (State) -- New York ; Occupational therapy for children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Physicians -- New York (State) ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.