The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Title:: [Fred L. Soper, Wilbur A. Sawyer, and their guide in front of a shelter at the site of a yellow fever infection near Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil]

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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 near the Bolivian border. With Dr. Fred Soper, Sawyer traveled by car to Coronel Ponce, where the most recent yellow fever cases had occurred. Unlike more typical yellow fever outbreaks, these had occurred in rural rather than urban areas, and the victims had been infected by non-Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at some distance from their dwellings. In this photo, Sawyer and Soper examine the shelter in the field where Eulalia de Lara (who died from yellow fever the day before) had worked.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (78,805 Bytes)

Date:

1934-06-18 (June 18, 1934)

Creator:

Unknown

Rights:

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Subject:

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

Exhibit Category:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937

Relation:

[Wilbur A. Sawyer's caravan and guides on the road to Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil] (June 17, 1934)

[Portrait of Mr. Lisboa, village telegraph officer, with Fred L. Soper and Alexander Burke in Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil] (June 18, 1934)

[Fred L. Soper and Alexander Burke crossing a bridge to inspect the site of a yellow fever infection near Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil] (June 18, 1934)

[Wilbur A. Sawyer crossing a bridge to inspect the site of a yellow fever infection near Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil] (June 18, 1934)

Box Number: 12

Folder Number: 6

Unique Identifier:

LWBBHK

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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