The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Title:: [View from Wilbur A. Sawyer's hotel room in Bahia, Brazil]

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Description:

As Director of Laboratories at the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division, Dr. Sawyer made inspection tours of yellow fever and malaria control laboratories in South America and Africa. During May and June of 1930, he visited RF operations in Brazil. (His baggage included 200 live white mice for the labs so they could use the recently developed mouse protection test for yellow fever immunity.) In Bahia he spent time conferring with Dr. Fred Soper and staff. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "View from Hotel Beau Sejour, Bahia, Brazil. May 23, 1930. Taken from my window.--W.A.S."

Number of Image Pages:

1 (79,031 Bytes)

Date:

1930-05-23 (May 23, 1930)

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Yellow Fever; Malaria; Brazil

Exhibit Category:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937

Box Number: 12

Folder Number: 2

Unique Identifier:

LWBBFT

Document Type:

Photographic prints

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Photographs and Motion Pictures, [1879]-1951

SubSeries: Albums, 1913-1951

Folder: Personal: Waterford, Ca.; Hastings-on-Hudson house; Professional: Rockefeller Foundation offices and laboratories; Rockefeller Center; African "Gold Coast"; French Equatorial Africa and Belgian Congo yellow fever laboratories (Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo [Zaire]); Zimbabwe; Rhodesia (quarantine camps for miners, malaria control ditches, mosquito capture squads); South Africa (Cape Town, Pretoria); Nigeria; Morocco (Algiers); Azores; Holland; Germany; Italy; China (anti-malaria billboard), 1930-1937

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-08-07

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