Catalogue description G.W. Young: Correspondence about artificial leg

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Details of 1922/B62
Reference: 1922/B62
Title: G.W. Young: Correspondence about artificial leg
Description:

Series Title: Original Letters

 

Copy of a report explaining the thinking behind the design of the artificial limb devised by G.W. Young, presented to a Royal Commission enquiring into the supply and repair of artificial limbs, 1921. Together with correspondence re these limbs, mainly from other amputees. Also an offprint describing a German design for artificial legs, and three postcard photographs of the leg designed by Young. See also 1922/C111 for the text of Young's book "Words to the one-legged, by one of them". Dates: 1919 - 1929, 1944.
Date: 1919-1944
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English, German
Physical description: 1 file
Immediate source of acquisition:

From the G.W. Young papers

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