Title:

Rockefeller Foundation doctors crossing on a ferry near Leesburg, Georgia

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Date:

[ca. 5 September 1924]

Description:

Several months after returning from Australia, Sawyer was dispatched to the southern U.S. to check on the status of hookworm and malaria control efforts in Georgia and Alabama. Drs. Charles N. Leach and John Howard Lidgett Cumpston assisted in this effort. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Sept. about the 5th, 1924. Dr. Leach standing. Crossing a ferry not far from Leesburg, Ga."

Location:

Box: 10. Folder: 9

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Hookworm Infections and Malaria

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBFB

NLM ID:

101584931X64

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X64

Story Section:

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