Wheelchair
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Object Details
- Sunrise Medical Mobility
- Description
- After a hang gliding accident in the California Sierra Mountains in 1978, Marilyn Hamilton (b. 1949) became a paralympic skier and wheelchair tennis player. She also co-founded the Quickie wheelchair company and developed light weight sports wheelchairs. This Quickie tennis wheelchair of 1999 has a “SHADOW” inscription.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift from Sunrise Medical Mobility, Quickie Designs, through Mariliyn Hamilton, Vice President.
- 1999
- ID Number
- 2000.0156.01
- catalog number
- 2000.0156.01
- accession number
- 2000.0156
- Object Name
- Wheelchair
- Physical Description
- metal (frame material)
- fabric (seat material)
- rubber (wheels material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30.2 cm x 80.5 cm x 91 cm; 11 7/8 in x 31 11/16 in x 35 13/16 in
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_473154
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-b387-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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