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Participants at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting onstage at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland
Date:
12 May 1948
Description:
Sawyer joined other eminent yellow fever experts at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland to honor Reed, whose experiments in 1900-1901 proved that yellow fever was transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. From left to right: General M. W. Ireland, Brigadier General Jefferson R. Kean, Brigadier General Albert A. Truby, Major General Raymond W. Bliss, Dr. Fred L. Soper, Dr. Philip S. Hench, Mr. J. L. Hanberry (a surviving volunteer in Reed's experiments), and Major General Walter L. Reed (son of Dr. Walter Reed).
Location:
Box: 13. Folder: 3
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