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[Betty Medsger disability rights photographs].
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[Betty Medsger disability rights photographs]Creator/Contributor:
Medsger, Betty, creator, photographer.Abstract:
Photographs from Medsger's project files for an intended publication titled "I don't just cope, I live", that documented the
activities of disabled activists Mark O'Brien, Tarri Tanaka, Judy Heumann, Don Scanlon, Denise Vancil and Vince Rios. Also
includes typescript drafts of captions intended to accompany particular images for this project, transcribed from interviews
conducted by Medsger. Other material includes photographs and release forms pertaining to publication "What do you do if your
wheelchair gets a flat tire?", a 1978 educational textbook on children with disabilities, authored by Douglas Biklen and Michele
Sokoloff -- and other photographs of disabled children. Identified subjects of smaller files include Paul Bendix, Donald Berry,
wheelchair basketball, disabled college students and Draper wedding
Date:
1975 (issued)Subject:
n-us---People with disabilities -- Photographs
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States
Children with disabilities -- Photographs
Personnes handicapées -- Photographies
Personnes handicapées -- Droits -- États-Unis
Enfants handicapés -- Photographies
Children with disabilities
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Civil rights
United States
Medsger, Betty -- Archives
Medsger, Betty -- Correspondence
O'Brien, Mark -- 1949-1999 -- Pictorial works
O'Brien, Mark -- 1949-1999 -- Interviews
Tanaka, Tarri L -- Pictorial works
Tanaka, Tarri L -- Interviews
Heumann, Judith E -- 1947- -- Pictorial works
Heumann, Judith E -- 1947- -- Interviews
Scanlon, Donald -- Pictorial works
Scanlon, Donald -- Interviews
Vancil, Denise -- Pictorial works
Vancil, Denise -- Interviews
Rios, Vincent -- Pictorial works
Rios, Vincent -- Interviews
Medsger, Betty
O'Brien, Mark -- 1949-1999
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographed by Betty Medsger.
Includes 4 boxes of approximately 7,200 b & w 35mm film negatives for all contact sheets present. Negatives shelved as BANC
PIC 2004.145--NEG(strip).
Includes approximately 400 color 35mm slides filed among prints.
STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference
Inquiry form.
Folder list available in library.
Copyright retained by Betty Medsger for her lifetime, after which it is transferred to the Regents of the University of California,
managed by the Bancroft Library.
Gift ; Of Betty Medsger ; 2004.
Project files, publication manuscripts and other papers transferred to the Manuscript Collections of the Bancroft Library
(BANC MSS 2015/184).
Audiocassettes of recorded interviews transferred to the Audio-Visual Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Mark O'Brien (1949-1999), advocate for disabled persons; poet and journalist; contracted polio in 1955 and used iron lung
for most of the remainder of his life; attended Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley. Judith
Heumann (b. 1947) international civil rights advocate for people with disabilities; acquired polio in early childhood. Tarri
Tanaka (1952-2002), equestrian; founder of Cornerstone Equestrian Center for therapeutic horseback riding in American Canyon,
Calif. Donald Scanlon (1930-2013), physician; graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1955; bicycle accident
in 1976 left him a quadriplegic. Vincent Rios (b. 1945), advocate of disabled U.S. war veterans; in 1969 lost legs and arm
in combat while serving in Vietnam War. Denise Vancil (b. 1967?), dancer and visual rehabilitation therapist; lost sight at
age 13.
Preferred citation: Betty Medsger disability rights photographs, BANC PIC 2004.145, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicmanuscripts for publication.
Archives.
Interviews.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
slide
approximately 1100 photographs in 6 boxes : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets chiefly 26 x 20 cm (8 x 10 format)
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/reference-online
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference
Inquiry form.
Copyright retained by Betty Medsger for her lifetime, after which it is transferred to the Regents of the University of California,
managed by the Bancroft Library.