Iron Lung Transport and Polio Emergency Care: Press Photographs of Respirator Patients, 1937-1951
Iron lung transport press archive documenting the movement of respirator-dependent polio patients through rail terminals, ships, ramps, aircraft, hospitals, and Coast Guard facilities during the years before the Salk vaccine changed American polio care in 1955. The iron lung, developed in 1928 by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, kept.....
