Poster Girl at Play-Mary Kosloski, five-year-old polio victim chosen as the 1955 March of Dimes Poster Girl, plays ball with her three-year-old brother, Paul, and sister, Catherine, eight, hidden behind Paul, in yard of their home here. Mary, stricken by polio when she was five months old, has been receiving treatment since and now can get about with braces and crutches.
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Poster Girl at Play-Mary Kosloski, five-year-old polio victim chosen as the 1955 March of Dimes Poster Girl, plays ball with her three-year-old brother, Paul, and sister, Catherine, eight, hidden behind Paul, in yard of their home here. Mary, stricken by polio when she was five months old, has been receiving treatment since and now can get about with braces and crutches.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1954]

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Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Infantile Paralysis: Wire Photos

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