Happy Ending is Possible

Happy Ending is Possible

Photograph

Cornell Capa

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1918–2008

Happy Ending is Possible

ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23.7 × 18.5 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0083
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (The Retarded) 10/61 15) HAPPY ENDING IS POSSIBLE for some retarded youngsters. \ Bobby, at 18, was able to leave the Southbury Training School \ in Connecticut where he had lived since the age of 11. Trained \ in the school as a baker's assistant, he hoped to be able to \ find a job in the outside world. Some 45 young men and women \ leave this home each year. \ Credit: Reprinted by persmission 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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