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Description
1 image. Leaves for Nebraska, 14 September 1953. Boni Buehler -- 23 years (lost leg and arm in accident at Lake Arrowhead) Mary Lou Nolan (United Air Lines stewardess). (Handout). Supplementary material reads: "News Bureau, United Air Lines, Bill O'Hern, MAdison 6-6311. Boni to visit home: Courageous Boni Buehler, 23, (right) who lost her left leg and arm in an accident at Lake Arrowhead, left today, Monday, 1 am via United Air Lines for Scottsbluff, Nebr., to visit friends and former neighbors in her home town. She will return to Los Angeles in 4 or 5 weeks to begin her new education at UCLA (education in use of artificial limbs). Boni, a Western Air Lines stewardess, 'talk shop' with United Stewardess Mary Lou Nolan (left) before takeoff."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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