Eames molded plywood leg splints

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The art gallery at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has a Charles and Ray Eames exhibit, which includes these molded plywood leg splints for injured soldiers from 1943. They are now highly collectible as works of art.

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