GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline): Sikora Center, prints and contact sheets

Creator:

Finkle, Harvey (creator, photographer)

Date:

2001-01

Description:

Black-and-white photographic prints and contact sheets depicting activities led by the Sikora Center, featuring center users, staff, and teenagers at the center. There is also a description of The Sikora Center provided by Harvey Finkle. The Sikora Center provides outpatient addiction treatment with a focus on treatment for substance and use disorders (SUDs). According to their website, GSK is "a fully focused biopharma company. We prioritize innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines, maximizing the increasing opportunities to prevent and treat disease. At the heart of this is our R&D focus on the science of the immune system and advanced technologies, and our world-leading capabilities in vaccines and medicines development. We focus on four therapeutic areas: infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology, and oncology." Harvey Finkle (born March 28, 1934) is a self-taught documentary still photographer and photojournalist who has documented social, economic, cultural, and political issues across the city of Philadelphia, the United States, and the world. Finkle's work largely focuses on activism relating to historically underrepresented communities, including people living on low income, unhoused/unsheltered/houseless people/people experiencing homelessness, refugees, immigrants, and disabled people.

Provenance:

Gifts of Harvey Finkle, 2020 and 2021.

Subject:

Alcoholism; Drug addiction; GlaxoSmithKline; Medical care; Substance abuse treatment facilities; Substance abuse--Treatment; Camden (N.J.)

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

black-and-white prints (photographs); contact sheets

Geographic Subject:

Camden (N.J.)

Related Place:

Camden (N.J.)

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

Rights Note:

The contents of the "Harvey Finkle photographs," an archival collection of photographic material created by Harvey Finkle, of which this volume of digitized images is a part, is held at the University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Notes:

All photographs taken by Harvey Finkle. The front and back of each black-and-white photographic print has been scanned. In some cases, pertinent information is written or inscribed on the back of the prints that is not reflected in the description of this volume of photographs.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 1531, Box 8, Folder 19

Collection:

Harvey Finkle photographs