Names in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
Below is an index of prominent names featured in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. Whenever possible, information about individuals in the index (e.g. aliases, relationship to...
View ArticleThe Havana Yellow Fever Commission and Carlos Finlay’s Mosquito Theory
The Havana Yellow Fever Commission of the United States National Board of Health. This photograph was taken at the Commission’s laboratory in Havana’s Hotel San Carlos in August 1879. (Left to Right)...
View ArticleThe Cuban War of Independence and United States Intervention
Cuban soldiers fighting Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. Strohmeyer & Wyman, “Cubans in their Trenches”, circa 1899. Digital image courtesy of the Library of Congress,...
View ArticleResources Related to the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission
Cover of a U.S. Senate report commemorating the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, 1911. In this section of the online exhibit you can find biographies, books, websites, and other...
View ArticleBooks about Walter Reed and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission
Selected books related to Walter Reed and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission: Henry Rose Carter spent the last years of his long public health career on the manuscript for Yellow Fever: An...
View ArticleWebsites Related to Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission
The following websites and web-based materials are either directly related to Walter Reed and/or the Yellow Fever Commission or contain information about people involved with the history and...
View ArticleArchival Resources Related to the Yellow Fever Commission
The following list includes various archival collections, including papers of persons related to the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, which may be of interest to researchers. Brief...
View ArticleHighlights of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
The following are documents of special interest from the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection chosen by our project staff. While this sampling cannot begin to cover the broad sweep of...
View ArticleThe Occupation of Cuba Exposes United States Soldiers to Yellow Fever
U.S. troops entering Havana, Cuba on January 1, 1899. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. When Spain formally transferred possession of Cuba to the United States on January 1, 1899, yellow...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba
In May of 1900, George Miller Sternberg appointed four men to serve on the new U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The head of the Commission was Major Walter Reed, a career military officer who was...
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