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Title: Polio victim joins DAV
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated May 24, 1956 reads, "Tony Sloss, Burbank Disabled American Veterans Service Officer, presents membership card to Melvin Swartz, polio victim. Swartz was stricken with disease while in Air Force in 1952 and was recently released from Sawtelle Veterans Hospital."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00109553
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d009_f29_i8
CARL0005251886
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/45567
Subject: Disabled American Veterans.--Department of California.--Burbank Chapter
Disabled American Veterans.--Department of California.--Burbank Chapter--Officers
Disabled veterans--Services for--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
World War, 1914-1918--Veterans
Veterans--United States
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Iron lung--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Poliomyelitis
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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