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The National Archives contains numerous motion pictures, photographs and other documents related to polio. Use the keyword "polio" or other search term descriptions for individual archival holdings. Of particular note:

National Archives photo "Instructing nurses on the use of respirator for a polio patient" May 23, 1958 (photographer and location unknown), General Records of the Department of Labor; Record Group 174; National Archives, part of the exhibit The Way We Worked.
FDR: "A 'New' FDR Emerges: Historians, Teachers, Authors Take a Fresh, Sometimes Critical, Look at Roosevelt" from the Winter 2006, Vol. 38, No. 4 of Prologue.
From the Annotation newsletter of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, March 2001, page 9, is a report about the $15,000 grant from Georgia Historical Repository Grant Program obtained by Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute to preserve 4,673 nitrate negatives of images on polio treatment dated from approximately 1928-1940s.
National Archives television interview, July 12, 1954, “Spread and control of polio” with participant Basil O'Connor, President, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. (Interviewers Larry Lesueur and Ned Calmer 200LW325-non-digitized).
Textual records concerning polio and the polio vaccine ("Polio Files"), 1953-55 from The National Archives Records of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), (Record Group 443) 1912-90443.3.1 Records of the Office of the Director.
Records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta) 442.2; records from Center for Disease Control and its predecessors 1921-2004, 442.2.3, with branches that include Epidemiology, concerning the study of polio, influenza, salmonella, and other diseases, bacteria, and viruses, 1927-73.

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