Object Details
- Description
- Vaccination record card for Randall Victor Kerr, a participant in the 1954 national polio vaccine field trial. Randall (Randy) Kerr, a 2nd grader in Fairfax, Virginia, was the first school child to be innoculated during the field trial. The vaccination record card includes the date, vaccine lot number, and physician for each of Kerr's three innoculations. The trial was a "double-blind" study. Neither the participants receiving the innoculations, nor the professionals giving the innoculations, knew which vaccine lots were actual vaccine and which were placebo.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- Salk, Jonas E.
- Kerr, Randall V.
- maker
- National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
- date made
- 1954
- Credit Line
- Gift of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 in; x 21.59 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 4 5/8 in x 8 in; 11.7475 cm x 20.32 cm
- Object Name
- vaccination record card
