left to right: Anna Hall, C.P. Li, Mrs. Auborn Hall, Morris Schaeffer (b. 1907), Mrs. Johnnie Johnson, and Ann Beasley

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Date: 1953; 2-Apr-53

Creator: Communicable Disease Center (U.S.)
Subject: Hall, Anna; Li, C. P; Hall, Auborn Mrs; Schaeffer, Morris 1907-; Johnson, Johnnie Mrs; Beasley, Ann; United States Public Health Service; Communicable Disease Center (U.S.)

Summary: Scientists at the U.S. Public Health Services Communicable Disease Center in Montgomery, Alabama, had just discovered that the Brunhilde type of polio virus could be grown in mice. Shown, left to right, are: Mrs. Anna Hall, C.P. Li, (Chief of the Special Projects Unit), Mrs. Auborn Hall, Morris Schaeffer (medical director in charge of the Virus & Rickettsia Laboratory) Mrs. Johnnie Johnson, and Miss Ann Beasley.
Cite as: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-2688
Repository Loc.: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Topic: Poliomyelitis; Medicine; Women scientists

Data Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2688]

Type: Black-and-white photographs

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Record ID: siris_arc_306449