Title:

Market in the native town, Accra, Gold Coast

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Date:

22 January 1933

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 then spent several days visiting staff at the RF yellow fever laboratory in Nigeria, then boarded a ship for England in Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana).

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: 5

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Public Health, Yellow Fever, and Ghana

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBGK

NLM ID:

101584931X92

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X92

Story Section:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937