Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum contains information on Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine as it relates to the time period of the Eisenhower administration. Included are numerous digitized, original documents, such as charts and graphs of polio cases in United States; the report, "Alternative Calculations of Total Costs and Federal Shares" concerning polio vaccinations; remarks by Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health in 1955; Senate Bill S.2501 authorizing grants to the states to assist in providing children and expectant mothers with vaccine; reports on vaccine distribution; White House press releases, photographs and other documents. (Full list)

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
200 Southeast Fourth St
Abilene, Kansas 67410
USA
785-263-6700 or Toll Free: 1-877-746-4453
785-263-6718 fax
eisenhower.library@nara.gov