The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers
- Title:
- [Rest house at Brazzaville, Belgian Congo]
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- Description:
- As Director of Laboratories at the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division, Dr. Sawyer served as a delegate to various international health conferences. Returning from a conference on yellow fever in Cape Town in November 1932, he passed through the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to talk with officials there about yellow fever surveys. "Rest houses" often provided better accommodations than local hotels.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (64,847 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1933-01-01 (January 1, 1933)
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Wilbur A.
- Rights:
- This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.
- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Public Health
- Exhibit Category:
- The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937
- Box Number: 12
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- Folder Number: 4
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- Unique Identifier:
- LWBBGC
- Document Type:
- Photographic prints
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Series: Photographs and Motion Pictures, [1879]-1951
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- SubSeries: Albums, 1913-1951
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- 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
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- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2006-08-07
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