Polio Pioneer Button Given to a Participant in the 1954 Polio Vaccine Field Trials
date: label: date made
content: 1954
notes: label: Description
content: In 1954, Jonas Salk’s early success with a killed polio virus vaccine led the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to implement a large-scale trial of his vaccine. James M. Norton, a third-grade student at Thornton Heights School in South Portland, Maine, was one of many children who took part in this trial. This is the button he was given at that time.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James M. Norton, Ph.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0336.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0336
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0336.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, polio vaccination
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.8575 cm