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One of them had polio--Skilled teamwork brought recovery / Herbert Matter. – Historic Reproduction

One of them had polio--Skilled teamwork brought recovery / Herbert Matter., New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, [1950] — vintage poster
One of them had polio--Skilled teamwork brought recovery / Herbert Matter., New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, [1950]. Vintage poster from the Medicine & Health collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The poster's title, "One of them had polio," presents a group of children at play and suggests that a child with the disease can still take part through teamwork and recovery. Swiss-born designer Herbert Matter made it for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the group better known as the March of Dimes, which raised money for polio care and research. In the early 1950s, polio frightened American parents, and epidemics filled hospital wards each summer, so posters like this one aimed to turn that fear into support. Matter's clean, modernist layout reflects the graphic style he brought to American design.

Created / publishedNew York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, [1950]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
GenrePosters American 1950.Offset lithographs Color 1950.
NotesLitho in U.S.A. Promotional goal: U.S. G32. 195- Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
SubjectsChildren playing--1950. Poliomyelitis--1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218726

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