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Title: Polio vaccination
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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: A polio shot--and a shower of tears. Rosita Linda Wood at Ninth Street School weeps as a doctor administers a Salk anti-polio shot on February 25, 1957. 300,000 school kids will get injections.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056916
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000059389
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21282
Subject: Wood, Rosita Linda
Ninth Street School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Physicians--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis vaccine
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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