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The Disabling Disease - Polio
Poliomyelitis is an intestinal infection spread through contact with fecal waste. Symptoms are usually slight. But when the virus enters the brain stem and nervous system it becomes a dreaded disease...[continue here]
Gendron Wheelchair and catalog (1928-29), books by Hugh Gallagher (FDR's Splendid Deception, Nothing to Fear), a picture of 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Top shelf: Photo and book of Elizabeth Kenny (And They Shall Walk), the Kenny Method of Treatment of Infantile Paralysis, the Toledo Society for Crippled Children President's Report (1938), and photos of disabled children. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Middle shelf: Hugh Gallagher's papers; photos, postcards, and news about the Crippled Children's Home in Toledo (1938), and a Gendron catalog of walkers. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Bottom shelf: Books about FDR's disability (Nothing Could Conquer Him, A Good Fight); letter from James Roosevelt to Jean Gould, Bill Clinton's speech at the FDR memorial dedication ceremony, and a photo showing then First Lady Hilary Clinton with Hugh Gallagher. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Referenced Canaday Center collections:
- MSS-014: Jean Gould Papers, 1919-1992
- MSS-190: The Ability Center of Greater Toledo Records, 1920-2000
- MSS-185: Hugh Gallagher Papers, 1880-2002
- Rare book collection (locate the individual titles above in the library catalog)