Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title [Convalescing children] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1930
Date [ca. 1930]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 13 x 18 cm (5 x 6.75 in.)
Description Depicts children, including an African American boy, playing and performing handicrafts, probably as occupational therapy, while seated at a table near a hospital bed on an outside porch. Six girls and boys sit around the table and weave baskets, a loom, hold a baby doll, and hold an image of a cow.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from attire of the sitters.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American boys.
Boys -- United States.
Children -- United States.
Girls -- United States.
Hospitals -- United States.
Occupational therapy.
Sick persons.
Weaving.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Group portraits -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana