YMCA Polio Swimmers [Published]

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Title: YMCA Polio Swimmers [Published]
Abstract: 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."
Item description: Image of several swimmers kicking legs with the assistance of adults while hanging onto the edge of a swimming pool.
General note: 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."
Collection: Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
Location: 54-6763
Identifier: 54-6763_003
Date created: 1954-03-15
Date published: 1954-03-23
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8 x 10 cm
Genre: negatives
Corporate creator name: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Subject(s): Swimming
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. YMCA Polio Swimmers [Published]. 54-6763_003.