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Title: Paraplegic vet relates hardships of switch
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: 1950
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 article dated May 12, 1950 partially reads, "'I a 26 years old and an out-patient of Birmingham Hospital. It would be impossible for me to take out-patient treatment at Long Beach. I take treatments at Birmingham in the mornings and go to metal school in the afternoon. I would have to quit metal school to have time to take treatment at Long Beach. I also own a home at 6442 Dempsey Ave., in Van Nuys, which would be a loss if I sold it.'" Note: Pictured is veteran, Myron L. Lapka.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111188
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d010_f34_i29
CARL0005253484
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/45653
Subject: Veterans--United States
Wheelchairs--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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