Title:

Elephants and their mahouts at Alawatugoda, Ceylon

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Date:

30 January 1924

Description:

The Sawyer family left Australia in January 1924, returning to New York via Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Dr. Sawyer, as the Rockefeller Foundation's assistant regional director for the East, spent the first part of the journey visiting RF hookworm control sites (and potential sites) in Ceylon and India, but combined this with sightseeing. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "January 30, 1924. Elephants and their mahouts at Alawatugoda between Ihalate[?] and Kandy."

Location:

Box: 10. Folder: 6

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Sri Lanka

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBDC

NLM ID:

101584931X44

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X44

Story Section:

From Hookworm to Yellow Fever: Rockefeller Foundation, 1919-1927