Thursday, February 13, 2020

Grandma Mathis and the Iron Lung

I've been working on creating a shadow box of my Grandma Mathis' nursing things. I have been collecting them since Thanksgiving. I remember everyone telling me about a picture of my grandmother with the first (or one of the first) Iron Lung that came to Utah. I found a website called newspapers.com and I decided to do a search. After some digging I came across this news clipping from The Salt Lake Tribune September 6, 1937. My grandma is the nurse standing next to the Iron Lung in the bottom left picture. I am excited to finally see this picture I have heard of all my life and to be able to put it in the shadow box!

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