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[U.S. Army medical officer vaccinating soldier with arm injection, San Antonio, Texas]

[U.S. Army medical officer vaccinating soldier with arm injection, San...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Magaw Memorial Hospital, Foochow, China. Nurses vaccinating children in school against Cholera

Magaw Memorial Hospital, Foochow, China. Nurses vaccinating children i...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Nursing Department. Group title: China. Used in: Ex. indef. Miss Pickett. Gi... More

Trench grave in which one hundred bodies were buried during Harbin Cholera Epidemic

Trench grave in which one hundred bodies were buried during Harbin Cho...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Siberian Commission. Group title: China. Used in: Exclusive. Gift; American ... More

Dispensing yellow fever vaccine into ampules. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dispensing yellow fever vaccine into ampules. USPHS (United States Pub...

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San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent being inoculated as they registered for evacuation, and assignment, later, to war relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent being ...

Men and women in line being inoculated by nurse. Photograph attributed to Dorothea Lange. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. J7647. No. A-503. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office... More

Peanut and produce stand in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president

Peanut and produce stand in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which F...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal ... More

Cowhands of all ages pitch in on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The day that calves are captured, branded, and vaccinated is one of the longest and most complex on the spread

Cowhands of all ages pitch in on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 8, 904 South Fourth Street, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 8, 904 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 6, 903 South Fourth Street between Building Nos. 1 & 7, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 6, 903 South Fourth Street b...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 6, 903 South Fourth Street between Building Nos. 1 & 7, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 6, 903 South Fourth Street b...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Morse Building, 1025-1031 Second Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Morse Building, 1025-1031 Second Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County...

Significance: Dr. John Frederick Morse, a New Yorker, was one of Sacramento's pioneer doctors, having arrived there in 1849 and remaining a leading citizen and businessman of that city until his establishing pr... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...

Significance: The Kitchen was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1907-... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.
NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

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La calavera del cólera morbo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

La calavera del cólera morbo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows a man with the body of a snake in the center of a group of skulls, representing the disease cholera, his arms are outstretched and tongue out. Flying insects surround him. The skulls that surrou... More

Dr. F.F. Friedmann - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Dr. F.F. Friedmann - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedmann (1876-1953) a tuberculosis researcher from Berlin, Germany, who came to New York City in 1913 to show that his "turtle vaccine" would give immunity to the disease. (So... More

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

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ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

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A black and white photo of a group of nurses. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of nurses. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Div... More

Placing typus vaccine in centrifuging machine. Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Placing typus vaccine in centrifuging machine. Rocky Mountain Laborato...

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Doctor Herrald R. Cox with flasks of the typhus vaccine obtained from eggs according to the method which he developed. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Doctor Herrald R. Cox with flasks of the typhus vaccine obtained from ...

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Dr. Herrald R. Cox with flasks of typhus vaccine obtained from eggs according to the method which he developed. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Herrald R. Cox with flasks of typhus vaccine obtained from eggs ac...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Doctor Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in the study of ticks and development of spotted fever vaccine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Doctor Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in...

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Typhus vaccine ready to be packed for shipment. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Typhus vaccine ready to be packed for shipment. USPHS (United States P...

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Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (Unite...

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Jeff's Soliloquy to be or not to be (hanged) that's the question

Jeff's Soliloquy to be or not to be (hanged) that's the question

Photographic montage combines painting by M.A. Andrews showing a woman walking through an ominous forest and photograph of Jefferson Davis's head atop the body of the woman, referring to a story that Davis was ... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, center rear, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, center rear, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...

Significance: The Kitchen was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1907-... More

Mount Hope, 231 North Mill Street, Lexington, Fayette County, KY

Mount Hope, 231 North Mill Street, Lexington, Fayette County, KY

Significance: In the spring of 1824 Benjamin Gratz became the owner of Mt. Hope, taking there his young wife, Maria Cecil Gist, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Gist. Three of the six sons of Benjamin Gratz were bor... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Scientists assert that all diseases can be prevented by inoculation / J. Keppler.

Scientists assert that all diseases can be prevented by inoculation / ...

Illustration shows Puck standing on a stack of bound PUCK volumes between a row of people on the left identified as a "Bank President, Cashier, Teller, Clerk, [and] Janitor" as well as a scrub-woman and an offi... More

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

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Dr. F.F. Friedmann leaving hospital

Dr. F.F. Friedmann leaving hospital

Photo shows Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedmann (1876-1953), a tuberculosis researcher from Berlin, Germany, who came to New York City in 1913 to show that his "turtle vaccine" would give immunity to the disease. (S... More

Chinese Red Cross Juniors distributing pamphlets on the prevention of cholera and demonstrating the importance of keeping the gutters clean

Chinese Red Cross Juniors distributing pamphlets on the prevention of ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC 14th Div. Group title: Jr. Red Cross (14th Div.) Used in: Jr. Red Cross, 14th... More

A black and white photo of two men and a dog, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two men and a dog, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Method of holding calf before branding, vaccinating, castrating, dehorning, etc. Roundup near Marfa, Texas

Method of holding calf before branding, vaccinating, castrating, dehor...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in study of ticks and development of spotted fever vaccine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in st...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Doctor Herrald R. Cox who developed the method of producing typhus vaccine from eggs. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Doctor Herrald R. Cox who developed the method of producing typhus vac...

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Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming, they must be lassoed

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Cr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming, they must be lassoed

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Cr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Morse Building, 1025-1031 Second Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Morse Building, 1025-1031 Second Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County...

Significance: Dr. John Frederick Morse, a New Yorker, was one of Sacramento's pioneer doctors, having arrived there in 1849 and remaining a leading citizen and businessman of that city until his establishing pr... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...

Significance: The Kitchen was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1907-... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

The old and the new year / J. Keppler.

The old and the new year / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Father Time presenting the new year labeled "1886" to Puck standing in the foreground, holding his lithographic pencil; behind him are scenes of events from 1885, such as President Cleveland'... More

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

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Vaccination of pigs on stock farm near Aledo, Illinois, usually done by a veterinary although some farmers do it

Vaccination of pigs on stock farm near Aledo, Illinois, usually done b...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man leaning on a fence, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man leaning on a fence, Georgia. Farm Sec...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vaccinating colt against blackleg. Warren Brewster ranch, Montana

Vaccinating colt against blackleg. Warren Brewster ranch, Montana

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Typhus vaccine ready for packing and shipment. Here is enough vaccine to innoculate a town of 15,000 population. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Typhus vaccine ready for packing and shipment. Here is enough vaccine ...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Earmarking and Vaccinating. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Earmarking and Vaccinating. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collectio...

People in photograph: Brown, Dennis; Mcerquiaga, Bruno; Jones, Dave Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The ... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I, New York Harbor, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I, New York H...

Significance: Isolation Ward I, later known as Wards 27 and 28, was one of three freestanding Isolation Ward pavilions built as part of the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U.... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, center rear, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 4, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.

A drawing of a man standing in front of a crowd of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vaccination -- Valcartier Camp, Canada

Vaccination -- Valcartier Camp, Canada

Photograph shows Canadian soldier being vaccinated at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec. The camp was established in August 1914 as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Ex... More

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

ARMY, U.S. ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL; TYPHOID VACCINE

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Magaw Memorial Hospital, Foochow, China. Nurses vaccinating children for Cholera

Magaw Memorial Hospital, Foochow, China. Nurses vaccinating children f...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Nursing Department. Group title: China. Used in: Ex. indef. Miss Pickett. Gi... More

A black and white photo of a man getting off a bus, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a man getting off a bus, Harris and Ewing, ...

A black and white photo of a man getting off a bus, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washin... More

The President's birthday ball "So we may dance again" Fight infantile paralysis.

The President's birthday ball "So we may dance again" Fight infantile ...

Poster for The President Hotel's birthday ball "so we may dance again" to raise funds in support of the fight to cure infantile paralysis. More information about the WPA Posters is available at http://hdl.loc.g... More

Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas

Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Army declares war on pneumonia. Washington, D.C., Sept. 1. The Army Medical Center is preparing a pneumonia vaccine for the first mass scale inoculation ever attempted in the battle against the disease. Volunteers from the CCC will be the human guinea pigs in the experiment. This vaccine, which is 10 times more costly as gold, is being made for distribution this fall to all CCC enrollees who desire inoculations. Officers expect to have enough vaccine for the safeguarding of 300,000 individuals. Captain John R. Wood, is shown with the partially purified product when it dialyzed in cellophane sacks to remove the reaction substances that give chills and fever and to further purify the product...

Army declares war on pneumonia. Washington, D.C., Sept. 1. The Army Me...

A black and white photo of a man holding a blender, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date (year) based on date of ... More

Innoculating a hog for cholera. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Innoculating a hog for cholera. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Dr. Herrald R. Cox, who developed the method of producing typhus vaccine from infected eggs, examining bacteria cultures. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Herrald R. Cox, who developed the method of producing typhus vacci...

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Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in study of ticks and development of spotted fever vaccine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in st...

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Placing crude typhus vaccine in centrifuging machines. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Placing crude typhus vaccine in centrifuging machines. USPHS (United S...

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Chaffee, Missouri. Little girl who was bitten by a dog receiving anti-hydrophobia vaccine

Chaffee, Missouri. Little girl who was bitten by a dog receiving anti-...

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Placing crude typhus vaccine in centrifuging machine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Placing crude typhus vaccine in centrifuging machine. USPHS (United St...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Ineligible for the army because of physical handicaps, James C. Schneider (left) and John D. Arrowood are two of Uncle Sam's ablest soldiers of production. They are inspectors of airplane motor parts in a Baltimore factory. Twenty-year-old Schneider has not let infantile paralysis interfere with war work, nor has twenty-four-year-old Arrowood allowed his polio-disabled leg and curvature of the spine to prevent his making a valuable contribution to the war effort. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Ineligible for the army because of phys...

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Gateway to the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president

Gateway to the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal ... More

Frankln D. Roosevelt's 1938 Ford convertible, displayed at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which he sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president

Frankln D. Roosevelt's 1938 Ford convertible, displayed at the "Little...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal ... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Remarks on Cholera, as it appeared in Lexington in June, 1833

Remarks on Cholera, as it appeared in Lexington in June, 1833

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Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...

Significance: The Kitchen was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1907-... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Kitchen, New York Harbor, Ne...

Significance: The Kitchen was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1907-... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

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