Values of personal cleanliness

Values of personal cleanliness
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Title: Values of personal cleanliness
Description:

Three children in bathrobes brushing teeth in bathroom at Infants Home of Brooklyn (1358 56th St.).; nurse assisting boy furthest from camera. Caption: "Values of personal cleanliness: Though away from their own homes, the children are taught to keep up personal cleanliness habits. Here head nurse Marcella Witriol keeps tabs on some of the older children, who are known as 'Seniors.'"

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jul. 18, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: Orphans
Orphanages
Teeth
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection .
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
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: SWEL 0514