She is formally posed with another young woman, both in formal dresses with corsages
She is formally posed with an unidentified young woman, both are wearing long gowns with corsages.
Issued by the Board of Education of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn
In 1917, the first troop for girls with disabilities began in Brooklyn
Label idenitfies this as a regulation Girl Scout cap.
Many of the girls appear to be blind. Emerald is in the second row, fourth from the right.
The girls appear to be presenting an elderly woman with an unidentified object.
Camp Wapanacki was the first camp for the visually impaired in the United States. Dr. Merle Frampton and his wife opened the camp in 1938 and operated it until transferring the operation to The New York Institute in 1942, who then ran it for over 50 years.
Inscribed: "To Emerald, from Jim Callahan, Camp Wapanacki, '47"
Children are swimming, canoeing, etc. Two photographs include a young woman who might be Emerald, not yet positively identified.
She is photographed half figure in shadow, holding potted plant
Emerald in winter coat with fur collar, half figure
Letter of Recommendation for Emerald to Dr. Ormsbee W. Robinson, Director of Admissions, Bard College, from Naphtaly Levy, Dept. of Political Science, Brooklyn College
Bus label reads: [not visible] College. Emerald is wearing a party dress and coat.
She is in dorm room [?], with another female student [Cynthia?]
Two of three copies. Contents include an obituary of Karen, Emerald's guide dog throughout her time at Bard and after.
Saddle stitch booklet reproducing address by President Case at the 1950 Convocation of Bard College.
Cynthia Maris Gross (Dantzic) ?54 was Emerald?s reader and friend while at Bard.
Posed photograph, two copies
Snapshot
Snapshot
Taken at Emerald's graduation from Bard. Karen was Emerald's guide dog.
Newspaper clipping from unidentified newspaper, relates relationship of Emerald and Cynthia Marris [sic] Gross, both of Brooklyn
Karen was Emerald's guide dog.
Snapshots include Cynthia, Karen and faculty
Two copies
Emerald is in coat with fur color. Two copies.
Photograph
Emerald is third from left. Clearly a training school. Names of everyone are on the back.
9x12
Third copy.
Announcing Emerald's graduation with a Master's Degree in Social Science
Announcing Emerald's graduation from NYU.
8x10 photograph
Photos include Emerald, Karen, Emerald's family, faculty and friends, the crowd, and the tent.
Handwritten, from NYU faculty and students
Written to accompany unidentified photograph
newspaper clipping
Program from March 4, 1967, ceremony giving Emerald Woman of the Year award
Died January 4, 1989
For National Defense Program, relationship to Emerald unknown
Promotional giveaway from Metropolitan Life Insurance
The I Dare You Leadership Award was first offered in 1941 by William H. Danforth, founder of the Ralston Purina Company in St. Louis. Danforth founded the Danforth Foundation in 1927 "to promote the well-being of mankind."
By Cynthia Dantzic, 1989 print of 1952 woodcut.