Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer. – Vintage Wall Art
![Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer., New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., [1949] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ed/edaf95697608-L.webp)
(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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This vintage poster of Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer.
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The title's image of a dawn breaking over polio research sets this 1949 poster apart from others on the subject. Herbert Bayer, the Austrian-born designer who trained at the Bauhaus and settled in New York in 1938, produced it for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which funded research and patient care during the disease's postwar epidemics. In 1949 polio was still widely feared and left many children paralyzed, and no vaccine would exist until Jonas Salk's field trials in 1954 and 1955. The poster's hopeful tone reflects a public campaign that relied on donations to keep research moving.
| Created / published | New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., [1949] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. F3. 1949. |
| Subjects | Poliomyelitis--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,268 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216204 |
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