Title:

Wilbur A. Sawyer holding up an elephant tusk in Bandundu, Belgian Congo

Date:

24 December 1932

Description:

As Director of Laboratories at the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division, Dr. Sawyer served as a delegate to various international health conferences. Returning from a conference on yellow fever in Cape Town in November 1932, he passed through the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to talk with officials there about yellow fever surveys. He took several pictures of these elephant tusks to send to his son Billy. Here Sawyer holds up one tusk to show its length compared to his own height of 5'8". The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Dec. 24, 1932. The largest of the tusks compared with height of W.A.S. Out of focus.". NOTE: The original photograph is blurry.

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: 4

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBFZ

NLM ID:

101584931X84

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X84

Story Section:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937