Image / Susan Peters and Captain Jack W. Gregory with specially equipped car

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Title: Susan Peters and Captain Jack W. Gregory with specially equipped car
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: 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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph dated May 8, 1946. Actress Susan Peters, paralyzed from the waist down in a hunting accident, sitting in her car specially equipped with hand controls. Captain Jack W. Gregory, director of rehabilitation for paraplegics at Birmginham General Hospital is the person Peters credited with her recovery.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083943
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f9_i25
CARL0002890426
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42462
Subject: Peters, Susan,--1921-1952
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Paraplegics--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles for people with disabilities
Valley Times Collection photographs

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