Community Service Society Photographs

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Awfully Busy

Awfully Busy
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(One 8 x 10 duplicate. See Duplicate/Extra Print File.) Negative on file Box 300 Folder 18 #7010 Stamped Hiram Myers Similar to picture in COS Annual Report, 1935-1936 (same child, slightly different pose), facing page 19. Caption: "AWFULLY BUSY"... in the C.O.S. playroom while his mother is pouring out her story In a private office. Children are of great concern to the Charity Organization Society, for nearly two-thirds of the families served last year had children. It is part of its task to keep these children untroubled while family difficulties are untangled.
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Awfully Busy
Awfully Busy
Title
Awfully Busy
Date
circa 1935
Item Number
157
Photograph Number
7010
Format
photographs
Corporate Designation
Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Borough
Manhattan
Annotation on Back
In COS Annual Report 1935-1936 Facing p. 19 news stock C. Antoni (TM)
Places
New York (N.Y.)
Topics
Waiting rooms; Recreation; Portraits; Drawing; Children; Boys
Names
Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Creators
Myers, Hiram
Box and Folder Number
13: 129
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(One 8 x 10 duplicate. See Duplicate/Extra Print File.) Negative on file Box 300 Folder 18 #7010 Stamped Hiram Myers Similar to picture in COS Annual Report, 1935-1936 (same child, slightly different pose), facing page 19. Caption: "AWFULLY BUSY"... in the C.O.S. playroom while his mother is pouring out her story In a private office. Children are of great concern to the Charity Organization Society, for nearly two-thirds of the families served last year had children. It is part of its task to keep these children untroubled while family difficulties are untangled.