Library Collections: Visual Still: Item Description

A man on crutches enters a store where corsets are sold.
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Visual Still Information

Title: Old Paral, Figure 6
From: Old Paral
Original caption: The Old Paral Says:
Before "polio" he was embarrassed if he wandered into a store's corset department -- But now he feels just like one of the gals!!
Creator: Bolte Gibson (illustrator)
Date: December 1933
Format: Illustration
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.3
Keywords: Assistive Technology; Braces; Clothing; Crutch; Disability Culture; Disease; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Georgia; Humor; Identity; Institutions; Physical Disability; Polio; Rehabilitation; Sexuality; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Mass Media, Culture & The Arts
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America


Objects From This Artifact:
- Old Paral, Figure 1 (still)
- Old Paral, Figure 2 (still)
- Old Paral, Figure 3 (still)
- Old Paral, Figure 4 (still)
- Old Paral, Figure 5 (still)
- Old Paral, Figure 6 (still)