Kirsten Hilleman Vaccinated with the Investigational Jeryl Lynn Strain Mumps Vaccine as Jeryl Lynn Hilleman Offers Comfort
Kirsten Hilleman Vaccinated with the Investigational Jeryl Lynn Strain Mumps Vaccine as Jeryl Lynn Hilleman Offers Comfort
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- Description (Brief)
- A ca 1968 print of a 1966 photograph documenting the vaccination of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman's daughter, Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman, with the investigational Jeryl Lynn strain mumps vaccine. Eight-year-old Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, for whom the strain is named, comforts her younger sister as Dr. Robert E. Weibel gives Kirsten the injection. The pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme widely distributed this photograph in 1968 as part of their press release and promotion for the Mumpsvax vaccine. This photograph has handwritten notations on the back.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- photograph, vaccination, mumps
- date made
- ca 1966
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2017.3081.02
- catalog number
- 2017.3081.02
- nonaccession number
- 2017.3081
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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