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According to Richard McCoy, this is Fairfield Stadium (note the track for meets). He said the field was lowered and the track was sacrificed for additional seating in the late 1960s. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the late 1940s or early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A boxing match, possibly at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A view from the pilot house on the Ohio River, with 16,000 tons of coal headed downstream, according to Richard McCoy. "With the bend in river, I would guess Lock #28 (across from the Glenbriar) on the Ohio River, before Greenup Locks and Dam were completed in the late 1950s."

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The Marshall College marching band performs at a bonfire on the school's campus. James E. Morrow Library is in the background. This photo was taken before the Science Hall was built in 1948-49, according to Ken Reffeitt. "Bonfires were held the night before 'big' games, and professor Otto 'Swede' Gullickson of the physical education department would often lead the cheering," he said.

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The Marshall College basketball team plays a game against Morehead. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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The Marshall College basketball team plays a game against Morehead. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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The man is professor Clayton Page of the Marshall College Department of Speech (before the Theater Department was established as a separate entity in the College of Fine Arts), according to Ken Reffeitt. The woman is unidentified. Date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the late 1940s or early 1950s.

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This photo was taken in front of The Herald-Dispatch, 946 5th Ave., in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The camera is looking eastward. Note the cars that are parking at an angle heading west, before 5th Avenue was turned into a one-way street.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Subject and date are unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Skaters glide across a frozen pond. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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Skaters glide across a frozen pond. Date is unknown, though the photo is likely from the early 1950s.

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A man entertains patients, who are enclosed in iron lungs at Morris Memorial Hospital in Milton. The man standing in the rear left of the photo is Forest "Frostie" Mitchell, who worked at Morris Memorial from 1948 to 1955 as an orderly, according to Jim Mitchell. Morris Memorial Hospital served patients suffering from infantile paralysis, or polio, beginning in 1930. At that time, there was no cure for the disease. Patients received respiratory, physical and occupational therapies during their stay at the facility. Many were educated there, as well, some receiving diplomas from Milton High School. After Dr. Jonas Salk discovered his polio vaccine in 1955 and the facility was no longer needed for polio patients, John and Rose Greene opened the Morris Memorial Convalescent and Nursing Home on the site. Richard McCoy said, "Victims of pulmonary paralysis due to poliomyelitis received breathing assistance/life saving treatment using these machines. The cause of this deadly disease was not well understood, and the mechanism of transmission was unclear. ... Vaccines developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s provided immunity. Widespread use of vaccines has come close to eradicating the disease, worldwide."