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Title
Young polio victim
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
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
Mike Olivere, 1-1/2 years old, of 390 Amalia Street, is shown learning to walk at White Memorial Hospital with the aid of crutches and braces. Mike was stricken with polio last September 9 and could not walk. His condition is improving, thanks to contributions to the March of Dimes.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00056917
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000059391
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21284
Subject
White Memorial Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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