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Title: Baseball fan in iron lung
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Garrett, Murray
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Polio victim sees baseball game from an iron lung on July 3, 1961. Mrs. Marie Thompson, 35, looks into a mirror which reflects the field action at an Angels game. An arrow points to an autographed ball given her by the team.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055419
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000057440
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19842
Subject: Thompson, Marie
Los Angeles Angels (Baseball team)
Baseball fans--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Iron lung--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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