Polio vaccine shipments photograph   Save
Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection
Description: Dated April 13, 1955, an assembly line of women prepare doses of the polio vaccine for shipment at a medical facility. The sealed boxes of vaccines ready for distribution have large labels that read "Polio Vaccine, Rush, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, United States of America." A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Women's Wednesday Polio." Polio, a virus that causes paralysis, especially in young children, was a major public health concern in the United States and globally from the early 1900s through the 1950s. In 1952, Jonas Salk at University of Pittsburgh developed the first effective polio vaccine, which was given to hundreds of thousands of children across the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F11_03
Subjects: Medicine; Medical care; Health care; Science and Technology; Women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)