Oral history interview with Maxine Steele, 2007 August 27.

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Oral history interview with Maxine Steele, 2007 August 27.

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Maxine Steele talks about growing up on a farm in O'Brien County, Iowa and attending a small school that served just 3 families. She contracted polio in 1923 at the age of one. She wore braces and had muscle weakness growing up although she was unaware for years that she had had polio. Later in life she became an advocate for post polio patients

Transcript: 10 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...

Scott, Kate.

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Steele, Maxine Anna, b. 1922,

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