Name
Beals, Jessie Tarbox (Photographer)
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Issuing body)
Community Service Society of New York (Issuing body,Former owner)
Title
Children Playing in Gutter
Abstract
Negative on file and one 4x5 duplicate) Box 297 Folder 8 #1890 Stamped Jessie Tarbox Beals Used in center-spread AICP Fresh Air appeal in Bagdad on the Subway: A Periodical of Associated News. No. 5, August 1918. p. 8 top left. Appeal: LITTLE PRISONERS OF THE SLUMS -- Pining Away for Fresh Air This summer fresh air work among the poor is not only vitally necessary, but an urgent patriotic duty. Tho usands of tenement children show today, in their wasted little bodies the effects of last winter's zero weather and coal famine, and months of undernourishment due to the war prices of foods, and add to this the misery and suffering of this summer's record-breaking heat. Yet these helpless little ones are the future hope of America - Won't YOU Help Them -- Please?
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 12, Folder no. 55, Item no. 5, Photograph no. 1890
Subjects
Streets; Street gutters; Play; Girls; Children; Boys; New York (N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
circa 1918
Note
Annotation on back: Children playing in gutter
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In
Community Service Society photographs
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/25hz-gw19