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162 1940s Wheelchair Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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Man in wheelchair looking at medical bill

Man in wheelchair looking at medical bill

An archery class at the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1949. Original Publication : Picture...

Stoke Mandeville Archers

1940s MAN IN WHEELCHAIR BANDAGED LEG AND FOOT LOOKING OUT WINDOW

1940s MAN IN WHEELCHAIR...

Two little girls visiting their father at the Mill Hill Emergency Hospital for BEF casualities give him a ride in his wheelchair.

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi standing behind a patient Tom Kano in Wheelchair, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA, Ansel Adams, Manzanar War...

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi standing behind a patient Tom Kano in Wheelchair, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA, Ansel Adams, Manzanar War Relocation Center Collection, 1943

SENIOR MAN SITTING IN WHEELCHAIR, CONTEMPLATING

SENIOR MAN SITTING IN WHEELCHAIR, CONTEMPLATING

Frail but smiling, champion golfer Ben Hogan relaxes in the sunshine in a wheelchair at the Hotel Dieu Hospital as he recovers from a near fatal auto...

Ben Hogan Recovering From Auto Accident

Game of netball at the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1949. Original Publication : Picture...

Wheelchair Netball

Game of netball at the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1949. Original Publication : Picture...

Stoke Mandeville Netball

Lionel Barrymore looking to his right from his wheel chair in a scene from the film 'The Valley Of Decision', 1945.

Lionel Barrymore In 'The Valley Of Decision'

Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of MA, Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, welcomed to the National Capital twelve veteran...

Wheelchair Basketball Champions Welcomed to the Capital

Nurse Violet Morse tends to British Army soldier Gunner Wason seated in a wheelchair in the grounds of Shenley Hospital, a military hospital at...

Military Hospital In Wartime

An Accident to Mr. Churchill', November 1931, . British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill in a wheelchair after he was knocked down by a...

An Accident To Mr Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala his dog and Ruthie Bie in Hyde Park, New York, 1941. There were few images taken showing President Roosevelt in his...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala his dog and Ruthie Bie in Hyde Park, New York, 1941. There were few images taken showing President Roosevelt in his...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Ambassadors visit President Douglas Hyde at Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin, Ireland, late 1930s or 1940s. Among those visible are Eamon De Valera and ST...

Screaming nanny comes face to face with a werewolf in a bathchair in a still from an unidentified film, circa 1945.

Wheelchair Werewolf

Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret pulling a lawn chair on wheels in the terraces at the back of the Royal Lodge, Windsor, UK, April...

Princesses Elizabeth And Margaret

Queen Elizabeth , Queen Consort to King George VI talking to a wounded RAF officer during a visit to Wellhouse Hospital, Barnet, London administered...

Queen Visits Wounded

Health, National Health Service, Great Britain, pic: July 1948, Disabled people and new mothers are given help at home, This service was provided...

PF Health. National Health Service. Great Britain. pic: July 1948. Disabled people and new mothers are given help at home. This service was provided free on the newly formed National Health Service.

Candystripers fluff pillows and tuck blankets around the feet of injured wheelchair-bound World War II veterans as they sit outside on a hospital...

Candystripers Comforting Men in Wheelchairs

Paralyzed war veteran Arthur Jurado chats with actress Teresa Wright on the movie set of "The Men," a dramatic story of the postwar problems of...

Teresa Wright Speaks to Wheelchair Bound Arthur Jurado

President Truman today presented championship awards to three paralyzed bowling champions from veterans administration hospitals at a White House...

Truman and Vets Bowling

View of a march held in Washington on August 6, 1946 by an estimated 10,000 mourners who marched down Constitution Avenue and held a memorial service...

Mourners in Civil Rights March

Polio patients and men of the Marine Honor Guard are shown lined up before Georgia Hall at the Warm Springs Foundation as the body of Franklin D....

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral Procession

Spitfire fighter pilot in good spirits as he recovers from a leg wound in the company of a friendly nurse at a convalescence home.

Pilot Convalescence

Woman in a wheelchair practicing archery at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, September 1948. Sport was a major method of therapy for...

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Disabled people riding in motorised tricycles as they participate in the Grand Parade of the annual race, held in Richmond Park, Richmond upon...

Motorised Tricycle Race, Richmond, London

Two nurses with wounded servicemen in the garden at Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Hospital at Halton, Buckinghamshire, Britain, 1943.

Nurses With Wounded RAF Servicemen, Britain, 1943

Unspecified American military personnel on crutches and sitting in wheelchairs gather to listen to the radio at Halloran General Hospital , a United...

Halloran General Hospital

Boy with a physical disability in a wheelchair exiting a door, 1945.

Boy in wheelchair, 1945

Under the care of English nurses, convalescent Indian soldiers in wheelchairs take a little exercise in the grounds of a West Country mansion which...

Hospital For Wounded Indian Soldiers

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor chat to patients at the Bahamas General Hospital in Nassau, 1940. The Duke, formerly King Edward VIII, is the current...

Royal Hospital Visit

Photograph of boy in wheelchair, Southern California, 1940.

Boy in wheelchair, Children's Hospital, Southern California, 1940

Dar Sun Kim, 100 years old, sits in a wheelchair after becoming an American citizen while her daughter in law Sook Chung carries her papers and a...

USCIS Naturalizes Elderly Hospitalized Woman

British Conservative politician Winston Churchill meets French ex-servicemen with war injuries in the courtyard of Les Invalides, Paris, France, 12th...

Churchill In Paris

Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence applies her make-up in her room at the Savoy Hotel in London, the day after her arrival from the United States,...

Marjorie Lawrence

Nurse standing behind man in wheelchair with young man talking to two young women in foreground. Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer,...

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Tom Kano. Others: George Nakano, Keiko Kamahara

Slumped in a wheelchair, Herbert J. Burgman, former clerk in the American Embassy in Berlin, is helped into Federal Court in Washington for the...

Man in Wheelchair Being Wheeled Into Court

Medical Aid Secretary C. L. King equips a patient with a free bathchair in Wales, 27th April 1946. Medical aid is free to the elderly in Wales....

Music/Cinema Personalities, pic: circa 1940's, America's "Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry pictured entertaining at a children's hospital, Gene Autry, born...

Music/Cinema Personalities pic: circa 1940's. America's "Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry pictured entertaining at a children's hospital. Gene Autry, (1907-1998) born in Texas, sold over 100 million copies of his records and made over 90 feature films from 193

Religion, Pilgrimages, Lourdes, France, pic: May 1948, Sick pilgrims being wheeled to the Church of the Rosary at Lourdes, in a line of wheelchairs

Religion. Pilgrimages. Lourdes, France. pic: May 1948. Sick pilgrims being wheeled to the Church of the Rosary at Lourdes, in a line of wheelchairs.

World War Two, Somewhere in England, 9th July Wounded British Expeditionary Force soldiers are taken for a stroll in the park as they sit in their...

World War Two. Somewhere in England. 9th July, 1940. Wounded soldiers are taken for a stroll in the park as they sit in their wheelchairs at a War hospital.

American actor John Wayne stars with Luther Adler and Eduard Franz in 'Wake of the Red Witch', 1948.

Wake Of The Red Witch

Bombing victim in a wheelchair is shown around the site of an air raid, which destroyed three ward blocks at St Thomas' Hospital, London, 9th...

Bomb Site And Victim

Bombing victim in a wheelchair is shown around the site of an air raid, which destroyed three ward blocks at St Thomas' Hospital, London, 9th...

Hospital Bomb Site

Postcard portrait of basketball team the New England Clippers, a team comprised of wheelchair-bound, paraplegic veterans, 1948.

Wheelchair Basketball Team

New York, NY: Com. Herman T. Stichman of State Housing today visited special designed apartments for 14 paralized vets at 2 state built emergency...

Disabled Vet At Special Housing Project

Three women, two wearing hats, fur collars or stoles, and holding dark handbags, standing on either side of woman in wheelchair, in domestic interior...

Woman wearing nurse uniform and woman wearing hair rolled back, looking at wheelchair, circa 1945-1950.

Nurse, Woman With Wheelchair

Henri Matisse in Wheelchair Looking at Stained Glass at Chapel of the Rosary, Vence, near Nice, France, 1941.

Henri Matisse Painter Artist Famous

Nelson Case, CBS Radio announcer and narrator, broadcasting from wheelchair. He had broken his ankle from a ski jump. New York, NY. Image dated...

Group of girls in wheelchairs and on crutches who are patients at St. Vincent's Orthopedic Hospital in Billings, Montana, stand on the porch of a...

Girls From Hospital at Camp

At a camp chapel, Nuns stand with a group of children in wheelchairs and on crutches who are patients at an orthopedic hospital. Custer National...

Nuns and Invalid Children at Chapel

Designer, Mr F. J. Marczewski loads the new folded wheelchair chair into the rear of the three wheeled disabled automobile while Mr E. H. Sidney, the...

Men with Car for the Disabled

American actor Alan Ladd, British actress Gladys Cooper, South African-born British actor Basil Rathbone and American actress Gale Sondergaard on the...

On the set of The Black Cat

Invalid Ernest Gwenn seen with a dog at PDSA. February 1941 P012684

Invalid Ernest Gwenn seen with a dog at PDSA. February 1941 P012684

Students in wheelchairs sit in the front of this elementary school classroom. Ca.1946.

Disabled Students in Elementary School Classroom

Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret pulling a lawn chair on wheels in the terraces at the back of the Royal Lodge, Windsor, UK, April...

Princesses Elizabeth And Margaret

Recipients of the Victoria Cross Lieutenant Basil Place, Lt Commander Stephen Beattie, Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls, Lieutenant Donald Cameron and...

Victoria Cross Recipients

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