Wilbur A. Sawyer alighting from a bullock cart, Weligama Rest House, Ceylon

Title:

Wilbur A. Sawyer alighting from a bullock cart, Weligama Rest House, Ceylon

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. He visited Weligama to discuss a hookworm control campaign for that area with local physicians. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "W.A.S. alighting from the bullock cart, Wiligama Rest House. Mar. 3, 1924."

Extent:

1 pages

Date Created:

3 March 1924

Right Type:

Rights Could Not Be Determined - Release

Right Statement:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

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Subject:

Hookworm Infections and Sri Lanka

Profiles in Science ID:

LWBBDL

NLM ID:

101584931X51

Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Location:

Box: 10. Folder: 6