M0006575: Cases of sleeping sickness in East Africa, Robert Koch expedition

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Sleeping sickness, Robert Koch expedition

19 photographs mounted for display with the caption "Picture of Robert Koch's Expedition to the former German Protectorate East-Africa, in order to study the nature of Sleeping Sickness and to organize the fight against it". The photograph of the display was taken at the Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, 1933, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. Related images: M0006574

30 January 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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