Iron lung Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital [Published]

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Title: Iron lung Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital [Published]
Abstract: Photo caption from cropped version of published version of 40-13_001: "K-W HOSPITAL RECEIVES PEER'S GIFT - The first of two iron lungs to be received in the Twin City, the gift of Lord Nuffield, English motor magnet, has arrived at the K-W Hospital. A similar machine is expected shortly at St. Mary's Hospital. Miss Margaret Derstine of the hospital staff, is show above, confined in the lung."
Item description: Image of Margaret Derstine lying in an iron lung.
General note: Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff. 40-13_001 appeared on Page 3 of the Monday, April 15, 1940 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Hospital Uses Reporter to Test New Iron Lung."
Collection: Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
Location: 40-13
Identifier: 40-13_001
Date created: 1940
Date published: 1940-04-15
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8 x 10 cm
Genre: negatives
Corporate creator name: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Continent: North America
Country: Canada
Province: Ontario
Region: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)
City: Kitchener (Ont.)
Usage rights: Public Domain
Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Iron lung Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital [Published]. 40-13_001.