The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Title:: [Swamp near Natal, Brazil where Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes were first found in the Western Hemisphere]

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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. Earlier that year, Raymond Shannon, a RF entomologist, had discovered that Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes (apparently recently arrived from Africa) were breeding in Natal, Brazil. An outbreak of malaria had followed several weeks later in Natal, causing concern among malaria-control staff.

The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Natal, Brazil, June 9, 1930. Swamp where Anopheles gambiae was first found in the Western Hemisphere, by Shannon."

Number of Image Pages:

1 (72,057 Bytes)

Date:

1930-06-09 (June 9, 1930)

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Rights:

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

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Malaria; Brazil

Exhibit Category:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937

Box Number: 12

Folder Number: 2

Unique Identifier:

LWBBFW

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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