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Title: Plastic lung
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Nurse Minnie Malek adjusts a new portable iron lung weighing less than 60 pounds on Barbara Johanson. The average weight of an ordinary iron lung used for polio victims ranges from 600 to 2300 pounds. This new device is being produced by A. L. Bergere and Associates of Beverly Hills. Photo date: January 30, 1943.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056920
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000059411
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21300
Subject: Malek, Minnie
Johanson, Barbara
A. L. Bergere and Associates (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Artificial respiration--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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