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The Disabling Disease - Polio
Poliomyelitis is an intestinal infection spread through contact with fecal waste. Symptoms are usually slight. But when the virus enters the brain stem and nervous system it becomes a dreaded disease...[continue here]
Gendron Wheelchair and catalog (1928-29), books by Hugh Gallagher (, ), a picture of 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Top shelf: Photo and book of Elizabeth Kenny (), the , the Toledo Society for Crippled Children President's Report (1938), and photos of disabled children. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Middle shelf: Hugh Gallagher's papers; photos, postcards, and news about the Crippled Children's Home in Toledo (1938), and a Gendron catalog of walkers. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Bottom shelf: Books about FDR's disability (, ); letter from James Roosevelt to Jean Gould, Bill Clinton's speech at the FDR memorial dedication ceremony, and a photo showing then First Lady Hilary Clinton with Hugh Gallagher. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Referenced Canaday Center collections:
- Rare book collection (locate the individual titles above in the )