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| Title | Welder collecting for March of Dimes, Seattle, 1945 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1945 |
| Caption | President Franklin Roosevelt, who had polio, established the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1938. The organization's January March of Dimes campaign raised money to care for people with polio and find a cure for the crippling disease. Each year, many of Seattle's clubs and organizations joined in the national fund raising effort. This 1945 photo shows a woman collecting for the March of Dimes at her workplace. |
| Notes | Lettering on can: Fight Infantile Paralysis.
Handwritten on sleeve: Western Agency March of Dimes.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Fund raising--Washington (State)--Seattle; War work--Washington (State)--Seattle; Defense industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; World War, 1939-1945 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.15307.2 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 45-306 |
