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An Amish family from Lancaster County's Old Order Amish Community listens intently to a Red Cross Volunteer before receiving their polio vaccine
Wirephoto published in the Tribune newspaper in 1979. Purchased by David Hurn from MMG Photo Archives.
Full title: An Amish family from Lancaster County's Old Order Amish Community listens intently to a Red Cross Volunteer before receiving their polio vaccine. The Amish sect which normally shuns advances that the general public makes toward them have consented to take the vaccine inlight of the recent confirmed cases of Polio. A source close to the Amish community quoted them: "We will take the vaccine, we don't wish to harm our English neighbours".
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 57308
Creation/Production
Unknown
Tribune Newspaper
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Measurements
h(cm) image size:21.6
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:19
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:27.4
w(cm) paper size:19.6
Techniques
Wirephoto
Material
Newsprint
Location
In store
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