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Identifier
20166379
Description
Reaction was varied in Fort Worth schools as second graders lined up for Salk vaccine inoculations in a nationwide experiment to find a successful polio preventive. Here it is shown Donnie Gene Richardson, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Richardson of 606 West Bluff who let out a soft "gee" when he took the needle. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition May 11, 1954. The woemn in the photo are unidentified.
Archival Date
1954-05-11
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-3240
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Nurses; Portrait photographs; Children; School children; Physicians
Names
Richardson, Donnie Gene; Whorton, C. M.
Subjects
Nurses; Portrait photographs; Children; School children; Physicians