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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Wendell Lantz on his special rocking bed shown playing checkers with his nurse, Marthena DeBord. (1952). Retrieved from https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20144577

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "Wendell Lantz on his special rocking bed shown playing checkers with his nurse, Marthena DeBord." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1952. Accessed
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Wendell Lantz on his special rocking bed shown playing checkers with his nurse, Marthena DeBord. 1952. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery, https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20144577. Accessed
13 May 2024
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Special Collections Reference Information

Original image part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: AR406-6-1738
Identifier: 20144577
Title: Wendell Lantz on his special rocking bed shown playing checkers with his nurse, Marthena DeBord
Description: Wendell Lantz, on his special rocking bed and wearing a portable "lung", plays checkers with Nurse Marthena Debord in the polio ward at City County Hospital. he is the ward's longest resident, having been fallen ill on July 15 1952.
Date Created: 1952-01-12
Coverage: 1950s
Category: Medicine, Nature, Science and Technology
Subject Term: Medical equipment & supplies, Health care facilities, Sick persons, Nurses, Poliomyelitis, Iron Lungs, Communicable diseases
Location: Fort Worth (Tex.)
Address:
1500 South Main Street
Fort Worth, TX
United States
Geographc Coordinates: Latitude: 32.726523100000
Longitude: -97.329030100000
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Language: None
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Project Series: Big Hair and Bigger Business: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Captures the 1950s

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