Photograph of wheelchair basketball player Ray Werner of the Jersey Wheelers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and white photograph of wheelchair basketball player Ray Werner of the Jersey Wheelers. 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 1968 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: Adaptive Sports
label: name of sport
content: Wheelchair Basketball
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Disabilities
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
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3137.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3137
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3137.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 4 in; 15.875 cm x 10.16 cm