Library Collections: Visual Still: Enlargement

A photograph of a motorized wheelchair.



Visual Still Information

Title: Gangway!
Original caption: "A New Style Vehicle Comes to Warm Springs."
Property of Louis McCalley of Middletown, Ohio, now occupying the Amory Cottage. It rides easily at seven miles an hour; in low gear travels at three miles an hour. Runs fifteen miles without recharging. Lever acts as steering wheel, chair can travel in reverse and has brake action. Cost about $250.
Creator: n/a
Date: June 1932
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives