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Title: Colson Wheelchair
From: Wheelchair Advertisements
Original caption: Wheel Chairs
Colson Hospital Equipment is internationally known and will be found in the leading institutions throughout the country including the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
Built to give the utmost in comfortable, economical service, Colson Wheelchairs offer a variety of styles and types to meet every condition or disability. Model C-31-B, illustrated, has comfortable, cool, cane filled seat, back and leg rests, also large rubber tires and coil springs for easy riding.
All adjustments of back and leg rests easily and simply operated.
A postal card will bring you our catalog and complete information.
Colson
"Manufacturers of Quality Hospital Equipment for Nearly Half a Century"
The Colson Company
332 Cedar Street
Elyria, Ohio, U.S.A.
Creator: n/a
Date: April 1933
Format: Advertisement
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.7
Keywords: Accessibility; Advertising; Assistive Technology; Colson Company; Corporation; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Georgia; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Medicine & Science; Ohio; Physical Disability; Polio; Rehabilitation; Technology & Equipment; Warm Springs Foundation; Wheelchair
Topics: Science, Health & Technology
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America


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