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1. [Counting hookworms in prisoners in Asuncion, Paraguay] (image 1)

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2. Burying a baby in the emergency cemetery in Ceara, Brazil

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3. A nine year-old Brazilian boy, displaying the hookworms and tapeworms he expelled when treated by the Rockefeller Foundation staff

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4. Fred Soper and his Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity brothers at Rush Medical College

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5. 'Ubiqueteers' J.H.U. School of Hygiene and Public Health

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6. Notecard with photo of the yellow fever laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, and inset photos of rhesus monkeys in lower corners

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7. [Stopping mosquitoes at the border] (image 2)

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8. Organizacao Administrativa Do Servico Nacional De Febre Amarela

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9. De-lousing clothing on a street corner in Mitrihena, Egypt

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10. Dusting villagers with louse powder in Esbe Rameses, Egypt

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11. Diagram of female hookworms used in public education lectures

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12. Tent headquarters for typhus control work, Egypt

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13. A health worker inspecting a village pool for Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, Egypt

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14. Jaguaribe river during rainy season in Ceara, Brazil

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15. Letter from Lewis Hackett to Fred L. Soper

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16. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Lewis Hackett

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17. Letter from Lewis Hackett to Fred L. Soper

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18. Letter from Lewis Hackett to Fred L. Soper

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19. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Leonel Tavares Miranda de Albuquerque

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20. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Lewis Hackett

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21. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Paulo C. A. Antunes

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22. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Paulo C. A. Antunes

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23. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Lewis Hackett

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24. Introduction and instructions for inspectors

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25. Organization in urban centers

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26. Bidding the Sickness Cease

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27. Deadly Mosquito Wiped Out in Brazil

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28. Fights Mental Ills of College Youths

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29. [Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary, Egypt] (section 1)

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30. African Mosquito Ravaging Brazil

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31. Fever of Jungle Marching North

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32. Glossary of terms used in the Fred L. Soper exhibit

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33. [Stopping mosquitoes at the border] (image 1)

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34. [A type of privy put in as a result of the campaign against hookworm in Paraguay] (image 3)

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35. [A type of privy put in as a result of the campaign against hookworm in Paraguay] (image 4)

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36. Yellow fever laboratory, viscerotomy section, Rio de Janeiro

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37. Diagram of male hookworms used in public education lectures

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38. Soper preparing for an inspection tour of Maranhao, Brazil

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39. [Bernard Award of the World Health Organization Medal] (front)

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40. [Bernard Award of the World Health Organization Medal] (back)

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41. Lasker Award statuette

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42. Health Protection in a Shrinking World

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43. Paris Green in the Eradication of Anopheles Gambiae: Brazil, 1940; Egypt, 1945

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44. Letter from W. H. Crichton to D. Gordon Cheyne

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45. Letter from W. H. Crichton to D. Gordon Cheyne

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46. Letter from Lewis Hackett to Fred L. Soper

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47. Letter from C.M.F. to C.G.S.

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48. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Wilbur A. Sawyer

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49. Report on the Control of Typhus in Naples, Italy, December 9, 1943 to January 2, 1944

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50. Memorandum from Fred L. Soper to W. H. Crichton

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51. Science in Review: DDT, the Army's Insect Powder, Strikes a Blow Against Typhus and for Pest Control

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52. The Conquest of Typhus

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53. Memorandum from M. E. Connor to Clementino Fraga

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54. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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55. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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56. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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57. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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58. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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59. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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60. The Crusader

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61. Letter to the Editor: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

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62. The Unfinished Business with Yellow Fever

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63. The Epidemiology of a Disappearing Disease: Malaria

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64. Problems to be Solved if the Eradication of Tuberculosis is to be Realized

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65. YAWS: Its Eradication in the Americas

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66. The 1957 Status of Yellow Fever in the Americas

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67. International Health in the Americas

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68. Notes of Lecture, Harvard [University]

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69. Yellow Fever Service and Rockefeller Foundation personnel after a staff luncheon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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70. Perifocal spraying of a water container in squatter dwelling in Caracas, Venezuela

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71. [Counting hookworms in prisoners in Asuncion, Paraguay] (image 2)

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72. Danger of typhus carried by lice

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73. Microscopists screening Anopheles larvae for Anopheles gambiae

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74. Emergency cemetery for malaria victims in Ceara, Brazil

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75. Fred L. Soper

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76. Fred Soper as director of the Pan American Health Organization

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77. Soper on one of his many journeys as director of the Pan American Health Organization

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78. Letter from Robert D. Murphy to Richard F. Allen and George K. Strode

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79. Letter from Dudley A. Reekie to Fred L. Soper

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80. Report on Initial Work with Louse Powders at the Prison at Maison Carree, Algeria, Carried Out Under the Auspices of the Pasteur Institute of Algiers

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81. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Leon A. Fox

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82. Report on the Work with Louse Powders at the Prison at Maison Carree, Algeria

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83. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Dudley A. Reekie

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84. Memorandum from Fred L. Soper to William S. Stone

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85. Letter from Henry Stimson to Fred L. Soper

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86. Memorandum from Fred L. Soper to William S. Stone

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87. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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88. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Eugene P. Campbell

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89. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Leona Baumgartner

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90. The United States and the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory

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91. Letter from Leona Baumgartner to Fred L. Soper

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92. Letter from Pedro Galindo to Fred L. Soper

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93. Letter from Pedro Galindo to Fred L. Soper

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94. Memorandum from Fred L. Soper to Abraham Horwitz

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95. Letter from Fred L. Soper to Pedro Galindo

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96. Typhus Fever in Italy, 1943-1945, and its Control with Louse Powder

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97. Louse Powder Studies in North Africa

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98. Soper's remarks espousing early regional organization of the World Health Organization

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99. Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary

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100. [Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary, Egypt] (section 2)

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