Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›University of Chicago Students Nurse Martha Cooley injects Jean Roff, freshman student, with the new type influenza vaccine, discovered by Rockefeller Foundation research workers, as other students wait their turns. The widespread outbreak of influenza has given the authorities here an opportunity to observe the results of the new vaccine. About 500 students of the school are being inoculated in the test.
University of Chicago Students Nurse Martha Cooley injects Jean Roff, freshman student, with the new type influenza vaccine, discovered by Rockefeller Foundation research workers, as other students wait their turns. The widespread outbreak of influenza has given the authorities here an opportunity to observe the results of the new vaccine. About 500 students of the school are being inoculated in the test.
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University of Chicago Students Nurse Martha Cooley injects Jean Roff, freshman student, with the new type influenza vaccine, discovered by Rockefeller Foundation research workers, as other students wait their turns. The widespread outbreak of influenza has given the authorities here an opportunity to observe the results of the new vaccine. About 500 students of the school are being inoculated in the test.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. January 1941]

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[Information from item housing] Influenza: Misc.

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