1953 Press Photo Polio- Children Receive Shots at Stonewall Jackson School

Polio - Fathers as well as mothers came along to console their children who received gamma globulin shots at Bristol. At one clinic at Stonewall Jackson School, E.L. Howard, with glasses, left, tries to distract his red-eyed 2 1/2-year-old son, Robert, with a lollipop which has become standard equipment at gamma globulin clinics.

Photo is dated 1953.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.