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[Photograph 2012.201.B1261.0653]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS IS MY DOCTOR" little Sarah Stevenson declares as she gives Dr. Bruce Hinson a hug and kiss, daily ritual for the 2-year-old who fell in love with her doctor during an autumn attack of polio."
Date: December 18, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.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.B1389.0216]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Object lesson in polio rehabilitation is Anthony Walde, 12, of 817 NW 31, center, shown with J. Phil Burns, left, county campaign director for the 1958 march of Dimes, and Larry J. Wolf city director."
Date: November 27, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
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.B1048.0510]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Richard Penix, polio victim who completed high school by remote control in three years, set an enviable record at McAlester High School by just barely missing valedictorian and salutatorian honors."
Date: 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0217]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An ardent March of Dimes rodeo fan, 7-year-old Priscilla Sells gets acquainted with some of the rodeo horses. She was paralyzed from the hips down when stricken with polio in 1949, and she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sells."
Date: January 18, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0280.0067]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Operation Respiration" was successfully completed Thursday noon for 17-year-old James Harper, polio victim from Grant."
Date: April 21, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0280.0069]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "After 20 months in an iron lung, James Harper, 18, Grant, was airlifted Wednesday from Tinker airforce base to the polio respiratory center at Omaha, Neb., for intensive muscular rehabilitation."
Date: September 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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