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Image Title: Future Ship Workers A One-Armed Welder., 1919

Date: 1919.

Summary: Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which men with partial arm amputations are taught welding.

Notes: Poster captions: Disabled men are taught oxy-acetylene welding in the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York City ; His good arm enables him to handle the torch as effectively as two-armed workmen.|Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, , Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - June 2018.

Subjects: Amputees--1910-1920
Disabled veterans--1910-1920
Handicapped persons--Education--1910-1920
Institute for the Crippled and Disabled--1910-1920
Welding--1910-1920
World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects

Original Media: Photomechanical print|Poster

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