Wheelchair
date: label: Date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: Sunrise Medical Mobility
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Sunrise Medical Mobility, Quickie Designs, through Mariliyn Hamilton, Vice President.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0156.01
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0156.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0156
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wheelchair
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (seat material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (wheels material)
label: Measurements
content: 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