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[News Script: Polio Clinic]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dr. Leonard Nystrom of Mesquite, providing $2.00 polio vaccinations for more than 400 Mesquite citizens at Big Town Shopping Center.

Date: July 19, 1959

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. A baby is sitting on a gurney while leaning against a nurse; the nurse has her hands on the baby. There is a mirror beside the gurney.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. Three children are laying on a mat. Beside the mat, there is a small, wooden bridge.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. Three children are each laying in a bed. The walls are decorated with cartoon characters painted on them.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. One boy is laying in a bed, and another boy is sitting in a wheelchair with his arm in a sling. The walls are decorated with paintings of Old West scenes.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. A boy is sitting on a doctor's table. There are two pieces of hospital equipment beside the bed.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at the Hendrick Medical Center. A nurse is tending to a child laying in a tub.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. A nurse is tending to a child laying in a tub.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. There are two beds beside each other and against a wall. The wall is decorated with cartoon characters painted on it. Also on the wall is a white bulletin board.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Copy negative of the polio ward at Hendrick Medical Center. A bed and table are setting against a wall; there is a stool and trash can beside the table. The walls are decorated with cartoon characters painted on them.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of two child patients in the polio ward of Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. In the foreground is an iron lung with a young female patient inside. Behind is a crib with another young patient.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Polio Ward at Hendrick Medical Center

Photograph of a child in an iron lung in the polio ward of Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. The photograph is taken from below the iron lung so that the face of the child can be seen in the mirror above him. Beside the iron lung is a table and flowers.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: Polio]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the type two polio vaccine being offered in Tarrant County.

Date: March 21, 1964

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Artist]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about artist Bill Zimmator, who has overcome being stricken with polio to create delicate 3-dimensional paintings of landscapes and portraits by holding the brush in his teeth.

Date: March 29, 1964

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Costa in polio ward]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about shortstop Billy Cost of the Houston Buffaloes staying in a Fort Worth polio ward with bulbar type polio.

Date: August 22, 1951

Duration: 26 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Emergency Drive Eyed]

Clipping describing an emergency fund drive for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Also discussed are funds needed for polio vaccine trials.

Date: June 25, 1954

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: Rosenberg Library

Oral History Interview with Betty Wildman Braswell, November 1, 2018

Edited transcript of an interview with Betty Jean Braswell, discussing what she remembers about growing up in Kerrville and having polio as a child, as well as information about her family and career as a teacher and business owner. Copies of photos are included at the end of the transcript.

Date: November 1, 2018

Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Braswell, Betty Jean Wildman

Item Type: Text

Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[News Script: Polio]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.

Date: July 8, 1967

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Year's first polio victim hospitalized]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Douglas Allan Fuss, an 8-year-old boy from Fort Worth, hospitalized with polio at John Peter Smith hospital.

Date: January 22, 1957

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Telephone]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an unexpected walkout affecting the Dallas office of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.

Date: April 27, 1956

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Civitan Club gets polio inoculations]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Cowtown Civitan Club of Fort Worth taking a double-barreled swing at polio by donating 250 dollars to the March of Dimes and then vaccinating their members against the disease.

Date: January 17, 1957

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mass polio shots started at Denton]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio in Denton County.

Date: February 13, 1957

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio mother]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Lloyd R. Erwin raising her two children from a wheel chair due to being stricken with bulbar spinal polio in 1951 and being named Dallas Polio Mother of the Year.

Date: January 10, 1957

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio - review]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Denton county attempting to inoculate every school student in the county with the polio vaccine.

Date: February 16, 1957

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections