John Howell standing with an iron lung outside the Crippled Children's Clinic and Hospital at the corner of 6th Avenue and 19th Street South in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

The machine, which had been used to treat polio, was to be taken back to the March of Dimes. According to information accompanying the original image, this photograph was taken "to go with feature story about a hospital built for polio which is no longer used for polio. To depict an era hopeful...

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