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Description
20 images. Blind children, 13 February 1953. Douglas Mandell -- 3 1/2 years (blind) Terry Erell -- 4 years Donna Sandler -- 4 years Mrs. Gail Sullivan Inez Sullivan -- 3 years (blind) Nona Marie Burris -- 5 1/2 years Tillie Mandell Marcus Mandell Nancy Mandell. Caption slip reads: "(Hold for Ray Parker). Photographer: Miller. Date: 02-13. Reporter: Parker. Assignment: Blind children. 7: Douglas 'Sparky' Mandell, 3 1/2, laughs and says 'watch me go high' as he enjoys swing at nursery school. Looking on (on teeter-totter) are hism friends, Terry Krell, 4, foreground, and Sparky's special girl friend, Donna Sandler, 4 unknown girl on swing at left. 44: Sparky and group of nursery school buddies doing fingerpainting. 43: Sparky playing with wooden steamboat peg toy. 26: Sparky Mandell, 3 1/2, romps with his dog, Whitey. 33-34: Sparky and mother, Tillie, enjoy slide in backyard. 29-30: Sparky on skates with his dad, Marcus Mandell. 8: Sparky and sister Nancy, 10 1/2, going off to nursery school. 41: Nancy playing her violin for Sparky, at left. 25: Sparky, right, with mother Tillie and dog Whitey. 42: Sparky, foreground, tries playing piano while sister Nancy, 10 1/2 plays violin. 27: Mrs. Gail Sullivan is helped by blind daughter Inez, 3, in making frosting for cupcakes. 28: Same as above with neighbor girl, Nona Marie Burris, 5 1/2, looking on, at right. 21-9: Inez plays phonograph with girl friend Nona Marie Burris (at right). 10-31-32: Mrs. Gail Sullivan and daughter Inez, 3, have tea together. 'Tea party'. 22: Inez, left, and Nona Marie Burris, 5 1/2, neighbor, inspect new batch of cupcakes that Inez helped make."
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image
Format
20 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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