Object Details
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Description
- This Polio Issue stamp honors those who helped fight polio and commemorates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes. The organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat polio. Poliomyelitis is a viral disease that causes paralysis of the muscles. Young children are the most susceptible to the disease. The stamp features an image of a woman holding a shield with the caduceus symbol, standing with a boy and girl. It celebrates those in the medical profession who helped find an effective vaccine to prevent paralytic polio.
- United States; polio; poliomyelitis; disease; infantile paralysis; virus; children; March of Dimes; Franklin Roosevelt; organization; woman; children; boy; girl; medicine; caduceus; science; vaccine
- January 15, 1957
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5195
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (red lilac); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1087
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- Health & Medicine
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5195
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8e10f39a5-4d63-43bc-a35f-5e0997120ddc
