"Mumps (Boy in Auto)" - 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

ca 1972

ID Number

2017.0193.11

catalog number

2017.0193.11

accession number

2017.0193

Object Name

print, advertising, vaccine

Measurements

overall: 19 3/4 in x 23 1/4 in; 50.165 cm x 59.055 cm

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

The Antibody Initiative

Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

National Museum of American History

Record ID

nmah_1845728

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-46de-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa