Captured on Film 6/1/19

Blake, 3, gave all of his attention to an unidentified physician as he received his smallpox vaccine June 22, 1957, at the Arena Building. His mother, Mrs. Charles Vallmeyer of Cape Girardeau, watched her son's reaction. Hundreds of people, adults and children, stood in line to receive the vaccine.G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive

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