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[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0062]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Twelve year old Mickey Cuthbertson lay in bed at McBride clinic Wednesday and gave his blessings to the mass polio immunization project that starts Monday in Municipal Auditorium."
Date: May 1, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0123.0152]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "No one is better known in the Red Oak community, located on the eastern edge of Pontotoc county, than Lafern Cannon, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. "Bob" Cannon."
Date: 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293.0167]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bob Davis, 2416 NW 33, identifies bird nests for Mrs. L. K. MacFarland, 204 NW 19, who obtained loan of a Wilson school bird study project for the hobbyist."
Date: June 7, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0049]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New Industry takes many forms, from a big building to a single man in a wheelchair, putting connectors on a length of cable."
Date: February 15, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0503]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Attending a class in Oklahoma history at Wapanucka highschool is Pat Cooper, 14, freshman. Pat had polio in 1947, goes to school by intercom set on her bedside table."
Date: January 18, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413B.0402]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mike Magdalena, night PBX operator at the YMCA, looks over some vacant lots on SE 7, near Armourdale avenue, six of which he claims were deeded to him without his knowledge by frank M. Bookstore, city lawyer."
Date: May 9, 1950
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1406.0017]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WHEN Ed White suggests that a prospective customer should buy polio insurance, he knows what he is talking about. Ed, 22, had polio when he was 5 months old and living in Des Moines, Iowa. He has never known what it is to have a health, normal body."
Date: August 24, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0138.0433]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With his left hand, 33-year-old Don Cockrell pulls down on the shift lever mounted on the left side of the dashboard, which in turn depresses the brake pedal."
Date: December 20, 1976
Creator: Maloney, Larry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0218]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Polio was no handicap for Priscilla Sells, 17, of 1465 Rancho Drive, when she took her driver's license exam and test. Although paralyzed from the waist down since 1949, she passed the test with flying colors in a specially-equipped vehicle designed by her father. She began learning to drive last April, and received the final stamp of approval from license examiner Joe Cook, pictured with her."
Date: September 10, 1960
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0569]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "He was being moved from University Hospital to the Southwestern Polio Respiratory center which specializes in the care of polio victims who can no longer breathe without help from a machine."
Date: August 22, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0568]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "From a distance it looked like a grim crew aboard a Santa Fe baggage car that sped along between Oklahoma City and Houston, Texas."
Date: August 22, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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