Front and side of antique wood and rattan wheelchair.

Front and side of antique wood and rattan wheelchair.

Wheelchair technology

Montage showing an antique wheelchair from the front and side in a museum display of an early twentieth-century farm house bedroom. The chair has two large metal drive front wheels with wooden push rims and two small metal back stabilizer wheels. The frame is made of wood and has a wooden push bar. The back, the seat and the single undivided leg rest are inset with rattan. The foot rest is a single piece of wood.

Gendron Wheel Company

City of Ottawa Museums, Cumberland Heritage Village Museum Collection, accession CM1989.037. Ottawa, ON.

Carleton University Disability Research Group

circa 1900s - 1940s

City of Ottawa Museums, Shared Resources, Collections

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Image jpg. Original artifact 126 cm (l), 71.5 cm (w), 121 cm (h)

Material artifact

CHVM_037_1.9

Canada, Ontario, 1900s-1940s