GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline): Golden Slipper Seniors (now known as Golden Slipper Gems), prints (volume 1 of 2)

Creator:

Finkle, Harvey (creator, photographer)

Date:

2002

Description:

Black-and-white photographic prints depicting activities led by the Golden Slipper Seniors (now known as Golden Slipper Gems). Prints feature portraits and candid photographs of older adult people participating in activities including dancing and pool, and enjoying live music. According to their website, Golden Slipper Gems "inspires older adults to live independently, actively and engaged" and "envisions a society where every older adult is honored as a valuable and treasured asset." 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:

Dance; Community centers; Games; GlaxoSmithKline; Leisure; Music--performance; Older people; Senior Centers; Lower Merion (Pa. : Township); Newtown (Bucks County, Pa.)

Form/Genre:

black-and-white prints (photographs)

Geographic Subject:

Lower Merion (Pa. : Township); Newtown (Bucks County, Pa.)

Related Place:

Lower Merion (Pa. : Township); Newtown (Bucks County, Pa.)

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 3

Collection:

Harvey Finkle photographs