Polio shots for children (neg by Clarke - Oxnard), 1954

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1 image. Polio shots for children (neg by Clarke - Oxnard), 30 August 1954. Ronald Bergman -- 8 months. Mrs. Rhonda Roberts (head of Polio Ward at General Hospital in Ventura).; Supplementary material reads: "Clarke -- Oxnard; 'Only research will make it possible to perfect a vaccine to permanently safeguard children and adults against polio, but it will take dollers [sic] to do the job,' Mrs. Rhoda Roberts, head of the polio ward at General Hospital in Ventura said this week. Mrs. Roberts said that so far this year the hospital has admitted 19 polio patients ranging from eight months to fifty years of age. Two patients, including a 13 year-old-boy had to be put into respirators. 'To date, Ventura County has been fortunate in that the county hasn't been hit hard,' she said. 'But we don't know what the next fiew [sic] months will bring.' Mrs. Roberts said that the present cases include an eight-month-old child suffering from complete paralysis of the left leg, an 18-month old baby with paralysis of the right arm, and a thirteen-year-old girl with paralysis of the throat. She added happily that all three are 'coming along nicely.' 'But if we are to beat this dreaded disease,' she said, 'we must fight, and the best way is to fight with donations.' In pix from left... no name on nurse at left; Ronald Bergman -- eight months; Mrs. Rhoda Roberts".

Asset Metadata

Title Polio shots for children (neg by Clarke - Oxnard), 1954

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1954-08-30

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1954-08-30

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m18940

Identifier EXM-N-11202-019~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94289 (legacy record id), examiner-m18940 (legacy record id), 11202-019 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94289

Unique identifier UC11718124

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11202-019~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 29.3 in × 23.6 in at 300dpi
74.4 cm × 60.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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