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YMCA Polio Swimmers [Published]
Photo caption from published version of 54-6763_003: "WORK LEGS - Patients hang on to the edge of the pool while assistants help to move their legs in an effort to overcome the paralysis. Instructors are (left to right) Miss Ann Marie Kerber, Edward Lescom, Fred Roger and Allan Menzies."
Image of several swimmers kicking legs with the assistance of adults while hanging onto the edge of a swimming pool.
Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff. 54-6763_001, 54-6763_003 and a photo missing from envelope appeared in the Tuesday, March 23, 1954 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Polio Victims Paddle, Splash Back to Health."
Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
54-6763
54-6763_003
1954-03-15
1954-03-23
1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8 x 10 cm
negatives
Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Swimming
North America
Canada
Ontario
Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)
Kitchener (Ont.)
Public Domain
University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. YMCA Polio Swimmers [Published]. 54-6763_003.