Patience at the Pool
Photograph
Patience at the Pool
A Day at "Camp Shriver"
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (24.4 × 16.5 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0293
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (A Day at Camp Shriver ) 7/62 4) PATIENCE AT THE POOL: Mrs. Shriver coaxes \ Wendell, one of her two special charges, into the \ swimming pool on the Shriver country place in suburban \ Washington. Wendell, a retarded child, was terrified \ of the water. But he became so confident in Mrs. \ Shriver that he finally dared step into the pool. \ Credit: Burt Glinn © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
