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Image Title: Learning To Walk For The Second Time, 1919

Date: 1919.

Summary: Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which men with double leg amputations are being taught to walk with protheses.

Notes: Poster captions: After some practice these leg-less men walk as well as uninjured persons. The French soldier on the right has been fitted temporarily so that he can get about soon after his operation. The peg leg is worn while the stump is assuming final shape and the more elaborate limb is being made ; These Italian soldiers, in a school at Naples, are being taught to walk on their new legs.

Subjects: Amputees--1910-1920
Artificial limbs--1910-1920
Disabled veterans--1910-1920
Institute for the Crippled and Disabled--1910-1920
Walking--1910-1920
World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--French
World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--Italian
World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects

Original Media: Photomechanical print|Poster

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