It Can Happen in Any Family
Photograph
It Can Happen in Any Family
The Retarded Child
ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23.9 × 15.6 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0078
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (The Retarded) 10/61 10) IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANY FAMILY: the tragedy of a \ child whose mind does not develop, who remains forever an \ infant. It happened to Mrs. Sundheimer of New York. After \ years of wondering, she comes to learn what is wrong with \ her daughter Eileen, and what she can expect in the way of \ development. Eileen's diagnosis came after a lengthy \ examination at the Retarded Children's Clinic at New York's \ Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital. \ 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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