Black and white prints on the wall remind staff at the March of Dimes in Dallas of a fight they've won.
"It almost looks like a science experiment," Rachel Mathew said while looking at an old photo.
For decades the organization's focus was on Polio, an infectious disease that can cause lifelong paralysis. In the 1950s it was described as one of the most feared diseases in the United States.
"The polio vaccine eradicated Polio," Mathew said. "It is one of the most monumental advances in science which allowed the march of dimes as a non profit to eradicate our mission."
Their role has shifted to the health of babies and mothers. But recently, in an old storage unit, they came across a very tangible reminder of their past.
"There were whole wards of these just lined up in hospitals with patients inside," Mathew said.
This device is known as an Iron Lung. A piece of medical equipment that helps a person with polio breathe – patients could spend weeks, years and some a lifetime inside one of these machines.
"I think it's important for people to understand exactly what it took to keep people alive and what efforts were made to do that," said Beth Snyder of the March of Dimes in Dallas.
In fact, efforts are still being made. Last year we brought you the story of Paul Alexander and the car mechanic that worked to keep his iron lung running.
"It took everything from me," Alexander told WFAA in December.
At the time, Alexander, right here in Dallas, was likely just one of four people in the country living inside an Iron Lung. The technology may be old but Alexander is proof that it works.
"It is a wonderful reminder that we are an organization that moves toward the success of our mission," Snyder said.
But there's a mystery to this antique medical device found in Dallas.
"I don't know where it came from...we've tried to trace it back and have been unsuccessful," Snyder said.
Rather than have it sit in storage, the March of Dimes is donating the device to a Franklin D. Roosevelt museum in Georgia – a president that was perhaps the most famous patient.