"Mumps (Boy on Bed)" - Norman Rockwell Print - Commissioned by Merck to to Celebrate Their Work with Vaccines

Mumps (Boy in Auto) - Norman Rockwell Print - Commissioned by Merck to to Celebrate Their Work with Vaccines

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Mumps (Boy in Auto) - Norman Rockwell Print - Commissioned by Merck to to Celebrate Their Work with Vaccines
"Mumps (Boy on Bed)" - Norman Rockwell Print - Commissioned by Merck to to Celebrate Their Work with Vaccines

Object Details

Description

Maurice Ralph Hilleman (1919-2005) was an important and much honored American microbiologist who developed more than 40 important vaccines. He worked for E. R. Squibb & Sons, the U.S. Army Medical Center (now Walter Reed Army Institute of Research), and then Merck & Co. In 1963, when his daughter Jeryl Lynn came down with the mumps, Dr. Hilleman cultivated material from her and used it as the basis of a mumps vaccine.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman

date made

ca 1971

ID Number

2017.0193.12

catalog number

2017.0193.12

accession number

2017.0193

Object Name

print, advertising, vaccine

Measurements

overall: 21 1/2 in x 27 1/4 in; 54.61 cm x 69.215 cm

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

The Antibody Initiative

Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6cec-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1845729