Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Pickford, and Winifred Reed Rally to Fight Polio
This black and white photograph is of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at a broadcast in the Diplomatic Reception Room to launch an initiative against infantile paralysis or polio. On the left of the photo is film star Mary Pickford and on the right is Mrs. Winifred Reed, wife of Stanley Reed, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39, and throughout the remainder of his life both he and Eleanor were staunch supporters of research into a cure.