Title:

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

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Yellow Fever

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBJF

NLM ID:

101584931X130

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X130

Story Section:

Post-War Work: UNRRA and Retirement, 1944-1951