Iron lung used at Kenny Institute. 'The Emerson Respirator' manufactured by the J.H. Emerson Co., Cambridge 40, MA, 1953. Juvenile size iron lung used at Sister Kenny Institute, Minneapolis, to treat polio patients.

"Fight Polio" poster for Sister Kenny Institute on light pole, downtown Minneapolis. 1950.

Aqua Jesters visiting Sister Kenny Institute, Minneapolis, December 1947.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny examining a child and lecturing to visitors c.1945.

Elizabeth Kenny Institute, 1800 Chicago, Minneapolis. c.1943.

Sister Kenny Institute polio patients help Sister Kenny celebrate Institute's first birthday. December 1943.

Sister Kenny Institute staff helps Sister Kenny celebrate Institute's first birthday. December 1943.

Dedication ceremony, Elizabeth Kenny Institute, 1800 Chicago, Minneapolis. 12/17/1942.

Sister Kenny demonstrates her therapy techniques, c.1942. Her pioneering physical therapeutic approach to polio first received a positive response at the University of Minnesota and later shaped the standard treatment for polio.

Iron lung patient and staff, Sister Kenny Institute, Minneapolis. c.1942.