Matchbox Used to Promote Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine During the1963 Soviet Union Clinical Trials

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From the online exhibition 'Whatever Happened to Polio?'

Object Details

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Heloisa Sabin

date made

ca 1963

ID Number

2005.3015.01

nonaccession number

2005.3015

catalog number

2005.3015.01

Object Name

matchbox, polio eradication

Measurements

overall: 5.2 cm x 3.7 cm x 1.5 cm; 2 1/16 in x 1 7/16 in x 9/16 in

overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 in x 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

The Antibody Initiative

Antibody Initiative: Polio

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Vaccines

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-88c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1281499