Polio Pioneer Membership Certificate Given to a Participant in the 1954 Polio Vaccine Field Trials
date: label: Date made
content: 1954
name: label: user
content: Chancey, Carl J.
label: maker
content: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
notes: label: Description
content: White paper card with blue print; red stripes on sides and red Polio Pioneer "seal" printed in center. Enrollees name handwritten on front; school, town, county, state, and date handwritten on back. Card issued to school children participating in the national polio vaccine field trials in 1954.
label: Description
content: Inscription on front: THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS / CERTIFIES THAT / Carl Chancey / HAS BEEN ENROLLED AS A / POLIO PIONEER / and this certificate of membership is / hereby presented for taking part in the first national tests / of a trial polio vaccine conducted during 1954. /Basil O'Connor PRESIDENT
label: Description
content: Inscription on back: ATTESTED / SCHOOL Shirley St. / TOWN OR CITY Winthrop COUNTY Suffolk STATE Mass. / DATE June 16, 1954 CHAIRMAN George Swa[?]ty / THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Winthrop
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Winthrop
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carl J. Chancey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0063.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0063
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0063.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: membership certificate, polio vaccination
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.4 cm x 11.6 cm; 2 17/32 in x 4 9/16 in