Oral history interview with Mary L. Ogren Osborn, 2007 September 25.

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Oral history interview with Mary L. Ogren Osborn, 2007 September 25.

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Mary Osborn talks about her family and growing up on a farm in Carroll County, Iowa; contracting polio when she was 7 years old along with 12 other extended family members who had met for a celebration a week earlier; polio clinics staged in local churches; her post-polio symptoms; and polio vaccinations. Stricken family members included a blind brother who lost his ability to read braille because of polio, a cousin who spent time in an iron lung and 10 years in a body cast before dying of pneumonia, and several family members who went to Warm Springs, Georgia for treatment.

Transcript: 8 leaves + 4 b&w 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...

Osborn, Mary Lynne, b. 1945,

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Scott, Kate.

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