Polio
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content: Disability Reference Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-2008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1319, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Consists primarily of articles, scholarly reprints, clippings, ephemera, and photographs. Topics include exhibition research material, the eradication of polio, orthotics, the Sabin and Salk vaccines, personal histories of polio survivors, post-polio syndrome and in particular the first mention of it in a letter written by Larry Schneider (Rehabilitation Gazette, Vol. XXII, 1979, Box 17, Folder 7), and Soviet Field trials. Material on polio can also be found in Series 8: Mace, Ronald L.; Series 5: Subject Files; Series 13: Printed Material; Series 14: Trade Literature; Series 15: Newspaper Clippings; and Series 16: Ephemera.