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Preferred Citation:

Coast School for the Physically Handicapped (Mombasa, Kenya) Photograph Album, 1965-1967, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

Handmade album featuring 17 photographs of children and their teacher attending school in Mombasa, Kenya. Most of the children in the photos are wearing leg braces or confined to a wheel chair. Each photograph provides a caption along with the names of the children. One photograph indicates that the children's handicap is a result of contracting polio. The front cover of the album is signed by the students who attended the school.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Children with disabilities
• Children with disabilities--Education.
• Mombasa (Kenya) -- History
• Poliomyelitis