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An advertsiement for a folding wheelchair.
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Title: Folding Chair
From: Wheelchair Advertisements
Original caption: A Folding Chair
This chair was developed by George G. Salmon, Jr., a former patient at Warm Springs.
Weight -- 25 pounds.
Widths -- 23" and 26" over all (23") width for persons under 115 pounds and (26") width for persons over 115 pounds.
Wheels -- 20" in diameter (all wheels ball-bearing).
Caster -- In the rear, 4".
(Wheels can be removed in one minute if the chair has to be carried a distance)
Price -- $27.50
Write for particulars to
George G. Salmon
417 Valley Street
South Orange, N.J.
Creator: n/a
Date: December 1933
Format: Advertisement
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.11
Keywords: Accessibility; Advertising; Assistive Technology; Corporation; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; George G. Salmon; Georgia; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Inventions; Medicine & Science; New Jersey; 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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