Oral history interview with Lila Stierwalt-Ruch , 2007 October 3.

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Oral history interview with Lila Stierwalt-Ruch , 2007 October 3.

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Stierwalt-Ruch talks about her family and her childhood in rural Iowa; contracting polio at age 10; her experiences during an 8 month stay in Blank Hospital in Des Moines including therapies and relationships with hospital staff; struggling with feeling different from her peers as a teenager; post polio syndrome and a Des Moines polio survivors support group.

Transcript: 8 leaves + 5 photographsSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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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...

Scott, Kate.

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Stierwalt-Ruch, Lila Maelene, b. 1940,

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