The Jewish Hospital for Joint Diseases was founded in 1905 with a mission to “bring relief…to the orthopedic problems of children,” including polio. In 1917, the hospital became a charter member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies (FJP), and by the 1940s, when Vishniac worked as a freelance photographer for various Jewish hospitals in New York, was producing illustrated brochures and annual reports of the work they were doing as part of their fundraising efforts.

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