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Measurements:
overall: 15 3/4 in x 10 in; 40.005 cm x 25.4 cm
Object Name:
photograph, vaccination, mumps
press release
Place made:
United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Date made:
ca 1966
Description (Brief):
A press release from Merck Sharpe & Dohme announcing the distribution of Mumpsvax mumps vaccine. The press release is attached to a print of a 1966 photograph documenting the vaccination of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman's daughter, Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman, with the investigational Jeryl Lynn strain mumps vaccine. Eight-year-old Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, for whom the strain is named, comforts her younger sister as Dr. Robert E. Weibel gives Kirsten the injection. The pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme widely distributed this photograph in 1968 as part of their press release and promotion for the Mumpsvax vaccine.
Location:
Currently not on view
Credit Line:
Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
ID Number:
2017.3081.03
Catalog number:
2017.3081.03
Nonaccession number:
2017.3081
See more items in:
Medicine and Science: Medicine
The Antibody Initiative
Health & Medicine
Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-b876-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1876727