Doctors Test a Child
Photograph
Doctors Test a Child
ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (15.6 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0079
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (The Retarded) 10/61 11) DOCTORS TEST A RETARDED CHILD, Eileen Sundheimer, \ to determine causes of retardation. Here a play therapist in \ New York's Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital tries to establish \ contact with the 8 year old girl by showing her the relationship \ between cord and light. After many attempts, Eileen was at last \ able to pull it herself. \ Credit: Reprinted by permission of the publishers from \ the book "Retarded Children Can Be Helped" by Cornell Capa \ and Maya Pines, Copyright 1957 by Channel Press, Inc. \ Photographs Copyright 1954 and 1955, Time, Inc.
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