Oral history interview with Jane Lovell, 2007 November 7.

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Oral history interview with Jane Lovell, 2007 November 7.

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Jane Lovell talks about growing up on a farm in Greene County, Iowa and attending school; contracting polio when she was 7 and recuperating for months at Blank Children's Hospital; residual disabilities left by the disease and having to overcome various obstacles as a result; raising a daughter as a single parent after graduating from the University of Northern Iowa; post-polio syndrome; and involvement with polio survivors organizations.

Transcript: 11 leavesSound 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...

Lovell, Jane Ann, b. 1943,

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Wetteland, Annette,

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