Poster Girl--Joan Brickfield, poster girl for the New York 1953 Mothers' March on Polio, pedals her tricycle past poster showing her and her mother, Mrs. Grace Brickfield of Brooklyn, at luncheon here yesterday in which an appeal was made for 200,000 mothers to volunteer in the 1953 March of Dimes program. Joan, who will be four next month, was stricken with polio when she was seven months old.
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Poster Girl--Joan Brickfield, poster girl for the New York 1953 Mothers' March on Polio, pedals her tricycle past poster showing her and her mother, Mrs. Grace Brickfield of Brooklyn, at luncheon here yesterday in which an appeal was made for 200,000 mothers to volunteer in the 1953 March of Dimes program. Joan, who will be four next month, was stricken with polio when she was seven months old.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1952]

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