Scrapbook belonging to Ray Werner
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Scrapbook containing mementoes, photographs and letters pertaining to Ray Werner's service on Guadalcanal in WWII, his resulting injury, his recovery in military hospitals and his time as a member of the wheelchair baseketball team The Jersey Wheelers.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ray Werner was paralyzed below the waist during his World War II service on Guadalcanal in July of 1942. He was sent to a rehabilitation hospital, where sports were used in his treatment. Werner, a gifted athlete in high school, was a perfect candidate for a new series of rehabilitation programs initiated by the federal government. Wheelchair basketball was the first sport included in these programs, and Werner excelled becoming a pioneer of the sport. He competed in the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960 and continued to help disabled veterans, opening a wheelchair repair shop and installing hand controls in cars for drivers with paraplegia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Wheelchair Basketball
label: web subject
content: Disabilities
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0026.03
label: accession number
content: 2014.0026
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0026.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scrapbook
label: Object Name
content: scrapbook, adaptive sports
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 14 in x 1 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 35.56 cm x 3.81 cm