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Title
D10217-3
Date(s)
- 1940-09-09 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Birthday party for three year old Katherine Ann Clinton, a polio patient at the Pierce County Hospital. She lies in her crib, surrounded by her new toys. Most of Katherine's friends and fellow patients are in the surrounding iron lungs. The nurses have placed one of her baby dolls in the infant iron lung. (T. Times 9/10/1940, pg. 3)
Poliomyelitis--Tacoma; Sick children; Pierce County Hospital (Tacoma); Clinton, Katherine Ann;