Oral history interview with Sharon Bates, 2007 October 30.

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Oral history interview with Sharon Bates, 2007 October 30.

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Bates discusses her experiences as a 7-year old with polio including time spent in Blank Memorial and Broadlawns hospitals in Des Moines; her post-polio symptoms; and measures that Iowans took to try to avoid the disease in the early 1950s before the Salk vaccine was available.

Transcript: 14 leaves + 5 sheets of copies of photographsSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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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...

Bates, Sharon, b. 1944,

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Wetteland, Annette,

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