Polio-Separated Couple Reunited -- Coast Guardsman Floyd H. Stevens greets his 23-year-old wife who yesterday made a 200-mile trip "home" via motor van encased in an iron lung. Stricken with infantile paralysis, she had been in a Watertown Hospital since July.

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Polio-Separated Couple Reunited -- Coast Guardsman Floyd H. Stevens greets his 23-year-old wife who yesterday made a 200-mile trip "home" via motor van encased in an iron lung. Stricken with infantile paralysis, she had been in a Watertown Hospital since July.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1944]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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