Image Group 4. Benefit for AWAKE (Advocacy for Women and Kids in Emergencies),, 1996.
Scope and Contents
The black and white photographs appeared in Focus with the story on the Ceremony to Commemorate the work of AWAKE and document the event.
Dates
- Creation: 1996.
Physical Description
3 black and white photographs.
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Extent
74 photographsBiographical / Historical
AWAKE, Advocacy for Women and Kids in an Emergency, is an organization at Children's Hospital that provides services to battered women and children. On June 4, 1996, the Harvard Medical School Class of 1996, and the New England Benefit Orchestra presented a concert to benefit AWAKE. The program was conducted by Seth Weinreb and featured Richard Strauss's Sonata for Wind Instruments, opus 135; a world premiere Work for Strings by Mark Bailey; and Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by Dean Daniel Federman.
General note
Photographer: Steve Gilbert
Creator
- From the Collection: Harvard Medical School. Office of Public Affairs. (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
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