Oral history interview with Bonnie Bakalar , 2007 November 16.

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Oral history interview with Bonnie Bakalar , 2007 November 16.

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Bakalar discusses contracting polio while working as a nurse at Iowa Lutheran Hospital; her sister's experiences with the disease and an iron lung; and the way that Iowa Lutheran Hospital responded to the polio epidemic.

Transcript: 8 leaves + 2 photosSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Iowa Lutheran Hospital.

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Bakalar, Bonnie, b. 1935,

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Scott, Kate.

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