Vi - Chip Ormsby - Mother on Main St. in Lake Placid, N.Y. in Front of Blanche's Gift Shoppe
Entry/Object ID
2024.24.16
Description
Black-and-White photograph of two women and a boy standing in downtown Lake Placid. Handwritten caption on front reads, "Vi - Chip Ormsby - Mother on Main St. in Lake Placid, N.Y. in Front of Blanche's Gift Shoppe. Aug. 1951." Print has decorative scalloped edges.
Note: The full names of the women "Vi" and "Dot" in these photographs are not known. It appears that the women were patients at least three different sanatoria, including the New York State Hospital for Incipient Tuberculosis.
