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Exhibit poster showing two scenes "At work again" and "Back to the farm" in which men using "working protheses" perform manual labor in a woodworking shop and on a farm.



Visual Still Information

Title: At Work Again, Back To The Farm
From: Exhibit Of The Red Cross Institute For Crippled And Disabled Men And The Red Cross Institute For The Blind
Original caption: A good substitute for a lost right arm enables this poilu to take up wood-turning at the School of Re-Education at Montpelier, France.

A double arm amputation did not keep this Frenchman from joining the army of workers after he was discharged from the army of fighters. He was taught farming at Lyon, France.

Physical handicaps are made up for so far as possible by modern artificial appliances - "Working prostheses" they are called - which replace the missing limb. Men in the mechanical trades are fitted with chucks in which can be fitted interchangeably the various tools of their calling.
Creator: n/a
Date: 1919
Source: Library of Congress