The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers
- Title:
- [Nurses' House and Central Office of the Yellow Fever Service, Rio de Janeiro]
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- Description:
- In 1934, Dr. Sawyer made another trip to Brazil to inspect yellow fever control activities, including an investigation of a puzzling outbreak of the disease in a rural region. The Yellow Fever Service was run collaboratively by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Brazilian government. As part of this campaign, the RF also helped support training of public health nurses.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (66,276 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1934-06 (June 1934)
- 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):
- Yellow Fever
- Brazil
- Exhibit Category:
- The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937
- Box Number: 12
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- Folder Number: 5
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- Unique Identifier:
- LWBBGV
- 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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