Let's play doctor

Let's play doctor
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Title: Let's play doctor
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Caption: "Let's play doctor--At 'Alice in Wonderland Party' given by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pressman, right for polio shut-in children of St. Charles Orthopedic Hospital, 277 Hicks St., 'Dr.' Ariel Roman, 5, tries out his toy stethoscope on 'his' patient, Pamela Knowlton, 5, whom Sister Mary Williams helps to 'sit up for the doctor'." Both of the patients are sitting in wheelchairs.

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Children with disabilities
Hospital patients
Volunteer hospital workers
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 0615