National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. Lapel Tab

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Description

Franklin Roosevelt created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which became known as the March of Dimes) to support the polio rehabilitation center he had established in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1927 and aid polio victims around the nation. The Foundation urged Americans to send their loose change to the President in a “march of dimes.” The March of Dimes supported the research and development of a polio vaccine by Jonas Salk in 1955 that eradicated the disease throughout most of the world.

This unused multi-colored lapel tab depicts a young girl in leg braces and a young boy on crutches. Below the image is text that reads: FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Transcript

To President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Commander in Chief
of Our Armed Forces

AMERICA’S
SCHOOL CHILDREN
are proud
to present
13,500 PLANES
44,700 JEEPS
and other war equipment to the value of
$510,000,000
through the purchase of War Bonds during the school year ending June 1944.

ENGRAVED ON A FRAGMENT OF THE PROPELLER OF A JAPANESE PLANE SHOT DOWN BY A U.S. PILOT.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-MUSEUM: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection.

Full Citation: MO 1978.9; National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. Lapel Tab; ca. 1930s; Gift Items and Commemorative Artifacts, 1941 – 2020; Collection FDR-MUSEUM: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection,; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/national-foundation-infantile-paralysis-lapel/, April 6, 2026]

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