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1. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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2. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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3. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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5. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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6. Wilbur A. Sawyer at home in Berkeley, California, with Mt. Tamalpais and Richmond Point in the background

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7. Wilbur A. Sawyer in Wallace Carroll's newspaper office, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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8. Wilbur A. Sawyer with azaleas along the Redwood Highway, California

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9. Participants at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting onstage at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland

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10. Wilbur A. and Margaret Sawyer with their grandsons Billy and Bobby Sawyer in Newtonville, Massachusetts

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11. Achievements of UNRRA as an International Health Organization

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12. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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19. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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20. Wilbur A. Sawyer outside the UNRRA office in Shanghai, China

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21. Excerpt from Wilbur A. Sawyer's diary concerning his visit to post-war Poland

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22. Excerpt from Wilbur A. Sawyer's diary concerning his visit to post-war Poland

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23. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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24. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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25. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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26. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Peggy Sawyer Carroll

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27. Directors and commissioners of the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army

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32. Letter from Courtenay Crocker to Wilbur A. Sawyer

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33. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Courtenay Crocker

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34. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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35. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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36. Wilbur A. Sawyer, local magistrate S.P. Mei, and others in Kiang Ning Hsien, China

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37. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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38. Wilbur A. Sawyer and faculty members of the Tokyo Imperial University

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39. Wilbur A. Sawyer and Keizo Nobechi at a shrine in Nikko, Japan

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40. View from Wilbur A. Sawyer's hotel room in Nikko, Japan

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41. View of New York City facing north from Wilbur A. Sawyer's Rockefeller Foundation office

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42. View of New York City facing south from Wilbur A. Sawyer's Rockefeller Foundation office

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43. The Distribution of Yellow Fever Immunity in North America, Central America, The West Indies, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with Special Reference to the Specificity of the Protection Test

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44. Wilbur A. Sawyer in the mouse room at the yellow fever laboratory, Rockefeller Institute

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45. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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46. Mosquito capture squad, Sao Goncalo, Pernambuco, Brazil

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47. Marketplace in Sao Goncalo, Pernambuco, Brazil

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48. Fred L. Soper and other doctors waiting for the repair of a blow-out, en route to Sao Goncalo, Pernambuco, Brazil

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49. Wilbur A. Sawyer on horseback in Banco Vitoria near Ilheus, Brazil

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50. View of Corumba from above the Paraguay River

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51. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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52. Fred L. Soper and Alexander Burke crossing a bridge to inspect the site of a yellow fever infection near Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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53. Portrait of Mr. Lisboa, village telegraph officer, with Fred L. Soper and Alexander Burke in Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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54. 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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55. Wilbur A. Sawyer crossing a bridge to inspect the site of a yellow fever infection near Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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56. Burity de Conceicao, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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57. Wilbur A. Sawyer's caravan and guides on the road to Coronel Ponce, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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58. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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59. Wilbur A. Sawyer and Fred L. Soper after the arrival of the airplane PP-CAO in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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60. Group photo after Wilbur A. Sawyer's arrival in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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61. PP-CAO, the "flying cow" airplane, in Corumba, Brazil

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62. Condor "Junker" plane in Sao Paulo, ready to fly to Corumba, Brazil

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63. Yellow Fever Laboratory, Bahia, Brazil

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64. Workers in the Yellow Fever Laboratory at Bahia, Brazil

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65. Fred L. Soper and Amaral Machado in the doorway of the Health Department building, Bahia, Brazil

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66. Nurses' House and Central Office of the Yellow Fever Service, Rio de Janeiro

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67. The Central Office of the Yellow Fever Service, Rio de Janeiro

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68. View of Rio de Janeiro from Wilbur A. Sawyer's room at the Gloria Hotel

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69. Wilbur A. Sawyer

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70. Merry Christmas from the House in the Pines from Margaret and Wilbur Sawyer

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71. Wilbur A. Sawyer and Thomas P. Hughes

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72. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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73. Yellow fever headquarters at Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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74. Wilbur A. Sawyer, his son Billy, and Johannes Bauer

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75. View of Cornell Medical School and New York Hospital from Wilbur A. Sawyer's laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute

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76. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

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77. Boats transporting cocoa off the shore of Accra, Gold Coast

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78. Market in the native town, Accra, Gold Coast

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79. Houses in the native town, Accra, Gold Coast

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80. Houses of Dr. Mahaffey and Dr. Beeuwkes, Lagos, Nigeria

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81. Wilbur A. Sawyer's cottage while visiting the Yellow Fever Laboratory in 1926-1927 in Lagos, Nigeria

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82. Laboratory building of the Yellow Fever Laboratory, Lagos, Nigeria

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83. Animal houses of the Yellow Fever Laboratory, Lagos, Nigeria

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84. Pasteur Institute at Brazzaville, Belgian Congo

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85. Rest house at Brazzaville, Belgian Congo

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86. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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87. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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88. Wilbur A. Sawyer holding up an elephant tusk in Bandundu, Belgian Congo

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89. Wilbur A. Sawyer with elephant tusks at Bandundu, Belgian Congo

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90. Group photo of delegates to an international health conference in Cape Town, South Africa

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91. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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92. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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93. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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94. Vaccination against Yellow Fever with Immune Serum and Virus Fixed for Mice

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95. The Use of Mice in Tests of Immunity against Yellow Fever

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96. Fred L. Soper at an old fort in Bahia, Brazil

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97. Swamp near Natal, Brazil where Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes were first found in the Western Hemisphere

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98. Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

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99. View from Wilbur A. Sawyer's hotel room in Bahia, Brazil

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100. Excerpt from Wilbur A. Sawyer's diary concerning his own yellow fever

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