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

Publication: Produced: 24 December 1932 Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Public Health Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Abstract: 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. Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584931X84 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: LWBBFZ Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X84 Archival Collection: The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers (Profiles in Science)