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Revolutionary 1 pound iron lung / Acme Newspictures. – Historic Reproduction

Revolutionary 1 pound iron lung / Acme Newspictures., 1949 — historic photograph
Revolutionary 1 pound iron lung / Acme Newspictures., 1949. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This Acme Newspictures wire photo from 1949 carries the headline "Revolutionary 1 pound iron lung," a claim that set this device apart from the large tank-style respirators of the day. Iron lungs were negative-pressure ventilators that helped patients breathe when polio paralyzed their chest muscles, and they were a familiar sight in hospital wards during the epidemics of the 1940s and early 1950s. Press agencies like Acme distributed such images to newspapers nationwide, so this print shows how the public was introduced to medical advances of the postwar years.

Created / published1949
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesNo. 907545.
SubjectsIron lungs--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,279 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177684

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