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Emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston, MA with iron lung respirators for polio patients; August 1955
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| Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye: Entertainers Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye pose with 1954
March of Dimes poster boy Delbert Dains on the set of “White Christmas”; 1953 |
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Dr. Jonas Salk gives vaccine injection to a boy at Colfax Elementary School, Pittsburgh, PA; 1954
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Dr. Jonas Salk gives vaccine injection to a girl at Colfax Elementary School, Pittsburgh, PA; 1954
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| Polio Pioneer No. 1, April 26, 1954. Six-year-old Randy Kerr of Fairfax County, Virginia, became Polio Pioneer No. 1 at 9:35 a.m. on April 26, 1954, the first child to be inoculated in the nationwide vaccine field trial. Administering the vaccination is Dr. Richard J. Mulvaney along with Mrs. Earl Purcell and Mrs. John S. Lucas, at the Franklin Sherman School in McLean, Virginia. |
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| Polio Pioneers: Smiling children show “where the needle went” after their vaccinations during the vaccine field trial; Polio Pioneer button inset; 1954 |
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| Jonas Salk and P. L. Bazely: Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. P. L. Bazely, Virus Research Laboratory,
University of Pittsburgh, PA; 1954 |
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Dr. Jonas Salk examines blood samples from the 1954 field trial at the Virus Research Laboratory of the University of Pittsburgh; 1954
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| I Love Lucy: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with their two children make a special appeal for the
March of Dimes on CBS-TV; February 1, 1954 |
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Composite of news headlines after the Francis report announced the Salk vaccine was safe and effective; April 12, 1955
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| Presidential Citation: President Dwight Eisenhower honors Dr. Jonas Salk with presidential
citation for development of polio vaccine; at rear, Leonard Scheele (U.S. Surgeon General), Dr.
Chester A. Keefer, Donna Salk; at front, Basil O’Connor, Jonas Salk, President Eisenhower, and
Oveta Culp Hobby (U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare); Dr. Salk’s sons are also
present; May 1955 |
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Merchants in Bergen County, New Jersey express their thanks to Dr. Salk for the polio vaccine in their store window; 1955
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| Polio Equipment: Equipment used by polio patient (in background in iron lung); Rancho Los
Amigos Rehabilitation Center; Hondo, CA; |
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| PEANUTS FOR POLIO, 1956. Perry Clark, state chairman of Teens Against Polio (TAP) in Atherton, Kentucky launches sales in Louisville to commence the Peanuts for Polio project. Teens in other cities also sold lollipops and balloons. Other fund-raisers of the time included 15 telethons, iron lung days, blue crutch days, auctions, bowling sweepers, TAP street sales, and Points for Polio basketball games. |
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| Marilyn Monroe: Actress Marilyn Monroe with 1958 March of Dimes poster children Linda and
Sandra Solomon, and the 14th annual March of Dimes fashion show; 1958 |
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| Johnny Carson: Tonight Show host Johnny Carson cooks up an enticing dish for the March of
Dimes; in 1967, Mr. Carson received the March of Dimes Man-of-the-Year award; August 23,
1963 |
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| Louis Armstrong: Jazz legend Louis Armstrong and drummer Danny Barcelona play for the
March of Dimes, c. 1959 |
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| Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra sings for the March of Dimes; c. 1946 |
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| Dime Card: An early March of Dimes coin collector or dime card, c. 1940s |
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FDR and Basil O’Connor (President, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) counting dimes at the White House; c. 1938
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| Grace Kelly: Actress Grace Kelly distributes March of Dimes literature to leaders of the Mothers
March on Polio; 1954 |
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First Poster Child: Donald Anderson of Princeville, Oregon, the first March of Dimes national poster child; 1946 |
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| Joe DiMaggio: Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio poses with Donald Anderson, the first national
poster child of the March of Dimes, in Central Park, New York City; 1946 |
