View from Wilbur A. Sawyer's hotel room in Bahia, Brazil View from Wilbur A. Sawyer's hotel room in Bahia, Brazil

Contributor(s): Sawyer, Wilbur A. Publication: Produced: 23 May 1930 Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Yellow Fever Malaria Brazil Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Abstract: As Director of Laboratories at the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division, Dr. Sawyer made inspection tours of yellow fever and malaria control laboratories in South America and Africa. During May and June of 1930, he visited RF operations in Brazil. (His baggage included 200 live white mice for the labs so they could use the recently developed mouse protection test for yellow fever immunity.) In Bahia he spent time conferring with Dr. Fred Soper and staff. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "View from Hotel Beau Sejour, Bahia, Brazil. May 23, 1930. Taken from my window.--W.A.S." Copyright: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information) Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584931X79 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: LWBBFT Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X79 Archival Collection: The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers (Profiles in Science)