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Title: Plastic lungs
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: On display is the plastic lung, a term to become as well known as its predecessor, the iron lung, in treating respiratory ailments. Bob Silverstein is shown with two plastic lungs on March 26, 1946.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056926
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000059408
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21293
Subject: Silverstein, Bob
Artificial respiration--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Iron lung--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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