Warning - Poliomyelitis - City of Bostom Health Department - This door opens to a room designated and set apart by the Health Department for the isolation of a patient infected
Warning - Poliomyelitis - City of Bostom Health Department - This door opens to a room designated and set apart by the Health Department for the isolation of a patient infected
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- quarantine sign, polio
- maker
- City of Boston Health Department
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- cardboard (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 cm x 13.8 cm; 3 9/16 in x 5 7/16 in
- overall: 5 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.6525 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- 2005.3080.08
- nonaccession number
- 2005.3080
- catalog number
- 2005.3080.08
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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