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Title: Polio vaccine arrives
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The precious Salk serum arrives in Los Angeles on April 13, 1955. American Airlines Air Freight personnel unload the shipment from Parke, Davis & Company. The inoculation of Los Angeles school children is scheduled to begin Monday.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055425
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262-B.
CARL0000057446
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19850
Subject: Parke, Davis & Company
American Airlines
Aeronautic, Commercial--Freight
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis vaccine
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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