ICD trainee Cyril Scheibel works on the box for the 1953 President's Trophy

Item Information

Title:
ICD trainee Cyril Scheibel works on the box for the 1953 President's Trophy
Description:
An ICD trainee sits at a workbench and does finishing work on the leather of the box for the 1953 President's Trophy. The inside cover of the box reads, "This trophy and box were designed and made by students in the commercial art, leathergoods and jewelry classes and the occupational therapy woodworking shop of the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled 23rd St. and 1st Ave., New York City." A caption reads, "Cyril Scheibel, 50, of 9515 Lefferts Boulevard, Richmond Hill, N.Y., helped to make the handcrafted tooled leather case fro the trophy which President Eisenhower awards today to the nation's "Handicapped Man of the Year". Mr. Scheibel helped make the case while a student in the Institute's leathergood manufacturing class."
Date:
1953
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 33 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
International Center for the Disabled Records
Subjects:
People with disabilities--Vocational guidance
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Institute for the Crippled and Disabled
International Center for the Disabled
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums792-b033-i073
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums792-b033-i073