The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Title:: [Animal houses of the Yellow Fever Laboratory, Lagos, Nigeria]

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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. He then spent several days visiting staff at the RF yellow fever laboratory in Nigeria.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (51,155 Bytes)

Date:

1933-01-20 (January 20, 1933)

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Rights:

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

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Public Health; Yellow Fever; Nigeria

Exhibit Category:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937

Box Number: 12

Folder Number: 4

Unique Identifier:

LWBBGF

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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