Oral history interview with Ann LeMaster, 2007 November 16.

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Oral history interview with Ann LeMaster, 2007 November 16.

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LeMaster describes her experiences as a child with a mother who had polio. Her mother, Beth Brown, was an active farm woman who contracted polio in 1954 leaving her paralyzed until her death 17 years later.

Transcript: 5 leaves + 1 photograph, 23 leaves of digital copies of photographs and newspaper clippingsSound 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...

Brown, Beth, 1921-1971.

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Scott, Kate.

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LeMaster, Ann MacKinley, b. 1947,

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