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[John A. Kingsbury being sworn in as member of Advisory Health Council by Hon. Shirley Wynne, M.D., Commissioner of Health, New York City – Historic Print

[John A. Kingsbury being sworn in as member of Advisory Health Council by Hon. Shirley Wynne, M.D., Commissioner of Health, New York City, 1930 — historic photograph
[John A. Kingsbury being sworn in as member of Advisory Health Council by Hon. Shirley Wynne, M.D., Commissioner of Health, New York City, 1930. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [John A. Kingsbury being sworn in as member of Advisory Health Council by Hon. Shirley Wynne, M.D., Commissioner of Health, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[John A. Kingsbury being sworn in as member of Advisory Health Council by Hon. Shirley Wynne, M.D., Commissioner of Health, New York City

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A swearing-in at New York City's health department is the subject here: John Adams Kingsbury, a social welfare figure, takes the oath as a member of the city's Advisory Health Council, administered by Dr. Shirley Wynne, the city's Commissioner of Health. The picture dates to 1930, early in the Great Depression, when municipal health and welfare services faced growing strain and advisory councils gave outside experts a formal role in city policy. The staged group setting reflects how officials of the period documented civic appointments.

Created / published1930
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930.Group portraits 1930.Photographic prints 1930.
NotesUnprocessed in PR 13 CN 1972:133.
SubjectsKingsbury, John Adams,--1876-1956. Oaths--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178897

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