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Wheelchair sports

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dr. Gerald Gray Corona Rolling Devils Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10069
Scope and Contents The Dr. Gerald Gray Corona Rolling Devils Scrapbook Collection contains printed material and photographs documenting the origins of one of the first wheelchair basketball teams in the United States. The collection consists of an oversized scrapbook along with several folders of loose items. The assorted ephemera, photographs, and newspaper clippings in the collection document practices and games of the Rolling Devils and the plentiful press coverage the team received. Photographs...
Dates: 1947-1948

Wheelchair Sports Photographs Collection (c. 1969-1975)

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10109
Scope and Contents This collection includes 438 photographs of international, state, and unidentified wheelchair sports competitions and unidentified wheelchair athletes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pictured competitions include the second biennial 1969 Pan American Wheelchair Games held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 1972 Paralympic Games held in Heidelberg, Germany, the 1973 and 1974 third and fourth Ohio Wheelchair Games competitions, and several other unidentified competitions. Many different sports...
Dates: c. 1969-1975