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Polio Resistance Exerciser
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Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine by Frank Lam of the Elgin Exerciser Appliance Company, makers of the machine. It will be used in polio treatment at Wisconsin General Hospital and was donated by Sinclair gasoline dealers to the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
October 16, 1951
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Polio Resistance Exerciser
October 16, 1951
Close-up of a polio resistance exerciser. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine given by Frank Lam of the Elgin Exerciser Appliance Company, ma...
Polio Survey
August 9, 1944
James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,...
Polio Short Course
June 29, 1948
Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School and the Wisconsin county chapters of the ...
March of Dimes Campaign
December 31, 1951
Bruce Chapman, age 12, is shown five years after being stricken with polio and recovering completely. His mother, Ferne Chapman, is sitting at left with their dog, Buster, in between them. Bruce's ...
"Fight Infantile Paralysis" Display
March 19, 1945
A women seated at a desk with a display board titled "Fight Infantile Paralysis".
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane Co. Chapter
March 8, 1950
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane County Chapter retiring officers Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, March of Dimes Chairman, and James R. Law, Dane County Chapter Chairman of National F...
