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Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1998-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...

Title: G. Jackson Burney oral history interview, 1997 September 4
Creator: Burney, G. Jackson, 1927-
Date Created: 1997-09-04
Subjects--Topical: Radio broadcasting, Music, Voluntarism, Race relations, Poliomyelitis, People with disabilities, Discrimination in employment
Description: Charlottean G. Jackson Burney discusses his career in the communications industry, his family, and his volunteer work. He contracted polio at a young age and discusses throughout the interview how the disease impacted his life. Mr. Burney describe...

Title: Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
Creator: Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
Date Created: 1997-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
Description: Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...

Title: Peggy Sue V. Henry oral history interview, 1996 May 7
Creator: Henry, Peggy Sue V., 1933-
Date Created: 1996-05-07
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Poliomyelitis, Revivals, Presbyterianism, Christian life, Manners and customs, City and town life
Description: Peggy Sue Henry discusses her memories of Reverend Billy Graham's family while growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a childhood friend of Reverend Graham's sister, Jean Graham, Ms. Henry recounts memories of the Graham family including Bill...

Title: The First Visualization of Polio Virus
Creator (Corporate): Parke, Davis & Company
Date Created: 1953-01-19
Subjects--Topical: Poliomyelitis, Viruses, Virology--Research, Vaccines
Description: Caption: "Parke-Davis Virus Laboratories. The First Visualization of Polio Virus. Electronmicrograph (60,000X) Mahoney Strain Type 1."