Claire Yaffa Photograph Collection Children With Aids Bulk, 1990-2000 1987-2010

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Claire Yaffa Photograph Collection Children With Aids Bulk, 1990-2000 1987-2010

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/yaffa/yaffa.html

This collection consists of photographs by Claire Yaffa of children with AIDS, taken over a ten-year period at the Incarnation Children's Hospital in the Bronx. Also included are a series of 1991 photographs of the potter's field on Hart Island, where many of these children are buried.

2.67 Linear feet; (5 boxes, 7 flat folders)

New-York Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6330761

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Yaffa, Claire

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g72kr (person)

Claire Yaffa is a freelance photojournalist known for her social realism. Her work encompasses abused or neglected children and the ill, elderly, and homeless. In addition to the New York Foundling Hospital (now known as the "Foundling"), she has photographed for The National Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, the Incarnation Children's Hospital, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, New York School for the Deaf and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. This work has been published in ...