Oral history interview with Betty Lieder, 2007 November 8.

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Oral history interview with Betty Lieder, 2007 November 8.

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Betty Lieder talks about her family of 5 children and her husband, a Methodist minister. In 1951 the couple moved from Boston to Hornick, Iowa for a church position in the small northwest Iowa town. She describes how fearful people were of the polio epidemic in Iowa at the time. Her youngest child, Deb, became ill with the disease as an infant and was treated in a hospital in Sioux City and later at the clinic in Warm Springs, Georgia. She talks about parenting a child with handicaps left by the disease. this collection also includes a memoir written by Betty Lieder for her daughter and a poem written by Deb to her mother.

Transcript: 7 leaves + 9 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...

Lieder, Betty Leggett, b. 1924,

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Scott, Kate.

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