M0014230: The Conquerors of Yellow Fever, 1900

Date:
October 1955
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/127/22
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: The Conquerors of Yellow Fever, 1900

Description

Left to Right: Major J. R Kean, Chief Surgeon, Department of Western Cuba; Dr Carlos J Finlay (who conceived the mosquito theory of the disease's transmission); Lieutenant Albert E. Truby; Dr. Aristides Agramonte; Dr. Jesse W. Lazear; Dr James Carroll; Major General Leonard Wood, Govenor General of Cuba (seated with hand on chin); Major Walter Reed, President of the United States Army Yellow Fever Board; Dr Roger Post Ames; Dr Robert P. Cooke (with hat); Warren G. Jernegan; John J. Moran; John R. Kissinger. The figures in the far right background are a soldier who represents U.S. army volunteers, and a Spaniard who represnts volunteers from his country.

Published as the frontispiece to Truby, Albert E: Memoir of Walter Reed : the yellow fever episode, New York ; London : P.B. Hoeber, 1943

Publication/Creation

October 1955

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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