Enroute to Chicago-Janice Dawe, five-year-old English polio victim, holds her doll, Annabelle, as she lies in her bunk on the America in New York after her arrival from England with her parents enroute to Chicago for treatment. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dawe, sold their home at Southampton, England, in order to make the trip possible. The child will be treated at the Micheal Reese hospital in Chicago, and the parents are planning to make their home in the U.S.
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Enroute to Chicago-Janice Dawe, five-year-old English polio victim, holds her doll, Annabelle, as she lies in her bunk on the America in New York after her arrival from England with her parents enroute to Chicago for treatment. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dawe, sold their home at Southampton, England, in order to make the trip possible. The child will be treated at the Micheal Reese hospital in Chicago, and the parents are planning to make their home in the U.S.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1949]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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