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Tom Olin Collection

Documenting the Disability Rights Movement through photos since 1984.

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Tom Olin has been a social documentarian for more than four decades, primarily capturing the unfolding history of much of the Disability Rights Movement. Over the years, his understanding of and dedication to the Independent Living philosophy, his love for and friendship with the people driving the movement, and his years of participation as a person living with disability have developed into a unique journalistic style. All of this adds to Tom’s effectiveness and ability to capture important people and moments. His images command a premium in the social history marketplace because they are uniquely important to the telling of the disability story.

Categories

  • ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
  • Capitol Crawl
  • Marches & Protests
  • Transportation

Archives

  • October 1990
  • July 1990
  • June 1990
  • March 1990
  • January 1990
  • September 1989
  • July 1989
  • May 1989
  • March 1988
  • April 1987

The Tom Olin Collection is housed in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections in the William S. Carlson Library at the University of Toledo.

Tom’s collection is thankful for the generous support of Voices for Independence, the CIL serving Western Pennsylvania.

Thank you to Tina Pinedo for her spirit, support, and web expertise. “The Force is strong in this one.”

Documenting the Disability Rights Movement through photos since 1984.

  • Home
  • About Tom
  • Installations
  • 504 Sit In Collection by Anthony Tusler
  • Sales
  • Contact

Tom Olin has been a social documentarian for more than four decades, primarily capturing the unfolding history of much of the Disability Rights Movement. Over the years, his understanding of and dedication to the Independent Living philosophy, his love for and friendship with the people driving the movement, and his years of participation as a person living with disability have developed into a unique journalistic style. All of this adds to Tom’s effectiveness and ability to capture important people and moments. His images command a premium in the social history marketplace because they are uniquely important to the telling of the disability story.

Categories

  • ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
  • Capitol Crawl
  • Marches & Protests
  • Transportation

Archives

  • October 1990
  • July 1990
  • June 1990
  • March 1990
  • January 1990
  • September 1989
  • July 1989
  • May 1989
  • March 1988
  • April 1987

The Tom Olin Collection is housed in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections in the William S. Carlson Library at the University of Toledo.

Tom’s collection is thankful for the generous support of Voices for Independence, the CIL serving Western Pennsylvania.

Thank you to Tina Pinedo for her spirit, support, and web expertise. “The Force is strong in this one.”

Black and white photo of people in front of a Greyhound bus, the people are in manual wheelchairs, holding signs that read "it's a dog of a policy," "lifts not lies," and "Greyhound is a dirty dog"

IT’S A DOG OF A POLICY

  • Post date
    September 4, 1989
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Black and white photo of a close up of a wheel on a but, there are two people underneath the bus, perched on each side of the large tire.

LIFE ON THE LINE

  • Post date
    September 4, 1989
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Black and white photo of person wearing a sun hat and wearing a long coat sits in a power wheelchair with a sign that reads "No freedom to ride for rural disabled americans."

NO FREEDOM TO RIDE

  • Post date
    July 1, 1989
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Back and white photo person using crutches marches with protesters wearing a sign saying “Separate Is Never Equal"

REGIONAL APTA BUSING PROTEST

  • Post date
    May 31, 1989
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Black and white photo of three people in wheelchairs wearing period clothing and holding a U.S. flag, one with stars in the shape of the access symbol.

DISABILITY RIGHTS PATRIOTS

  • Post date
    May 14, 1989
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Black and white photo of the back of a person in a power wheelchair with a sign tacked on that reads "asking did not work," another person in a wheelchair beside has a sign that reads "equal rights not jail"

ASKING DID NOT WORK

  • Post date
    March 6, 1988
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Black and white photo of mostly people in wheelchairs crowded around a street corner. One person in breaking the curb with cement dust around the object. People hold signs that read "cut the curbs," "walk of shame," and "build a better way"

WALK OF SHAME

  • Post date
    March 6, 1988
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Black and white photo of two people in wheelchairs. One is holding a sign that reads "Arizona Resident for Accessible Transportation"

PHOENIX JAIL

  • Post date
    April 5, 1987
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