The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers
- Title:
- [Wilbur A. Sawyer on horseback in Banco Vitoria near Ilheus, 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. Several weeks later they investigated similar reports in the eastern state of Bahia. In this photo Dr. Sawyer (foreground) and Dr. Machado set out to visit the parents of a victim.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (53,817 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1934-07-08 (July 8, 1934)
- Creator:
- Unknown
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- 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: 6
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- Unique Identifier:
- LWBBHP
- 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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