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Bess Wallace Truman (right) talking to a nurse and girl in a therapy bath. Mrs. Truman was visiting the hospital in relationship to the polio drive that was taking place.

President Harry S. Truman stops to take Terry Tullos, three-year-old Laurel, Mississippi infantile paralysis victim, in his arms today as the boy with braces on his legs walks up the Chief Executive. Terry has been selected as "poster boy" for this year's March of Dimes campaign to raise funds for treatment of infantile paralysis. From: Houston Post.

Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (leftmost standing in foreground) and Basil O'Connor (rightmost standing in foreground) pass out Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps to polio patients at Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing on the far right in the background is Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall. All others are unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (standing in right foreground) passes out Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial stamps to polio patients in Warm Springs, Georgia. All others unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

A group of polio patients receive Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps from Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (standing center foreground) at Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing to the left of Hannegan is Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall. Standing at right of Hannegan is Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. All others in photo are unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

Polio patients receive Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps in Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing on the right side: Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (leftmost) and Basil O'Connor (rightmost), President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. All others in the photo are unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.