Polio Pioneer Button Given to a Participant in the 1954 Polio Vaccine Field Trials

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Object Details

Description

In 1954, Jonas Salk’s early success with a killed polio virus vaccine led the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to implement a large-scale trial of his vaccine. James M. Norton, a third-grade student at Thornton Heights School in South Portland, Maine, was one of many children who took part in this trial. This is the button he was given at that time.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of James M. Norton, Ph.D.

date made

1954

ID Number

1996.0336.01

accession number

1996.0336

catalog number

1996.0336.01

Object Name

button, polio vaccination

Measurements

overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.8575 cm

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

The Antibody Initiative

Health & Medicine

Antibody Initiative: Polio

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-ba9b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_765633