Rat Control Group, New Orleans, La.

Publication: [between 1914 and 1920]

 

Format: Still image

 

Subject(s): Communicable Disease Control,

Plague -- prevention & control,

Rodent Control,

United States. Public Health Service.

 

Genre(s): Portraits

 

Abstract: Group portrait of nine rat-proofers, posed standing, holding sticks, pick axes, and shovels, during the Public Health Service campaign against the New Orleans plague epidemic, 1914-1920.

 

Extent: 1 photographic print : 17 x 13 cm.

 

Provenance: Donation; Centers for Disease Control; 1983.

 

Technique: Black and white

 

NLM Unique ID:

01443613

 

NLM Image ID: A015954

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