Materials Housed at the University of Pittsburgh
Materials displayed in this exhibit are part of a generous gift to the University of Pittsburgh from the Jonas Salk family. Displays were curated by a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff, and students from the University Library System, the Museum Studies Program, the Office of University Communications and Marketing, and the School of Public Health.
The collection also features many important items not on public display. It includes thousands of individual vaccine trial volunteer parental consent forms, as well as thousands of 3”x5” cards showing the study subject’s name, with dates, vaccines given, and antibody test results. In addition, many lab materials such as financial reports, receipts, equipment, supplies, procedures methodology, and protocol reports are housed at the University of Pittsburgh.
