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

National Museum of American History

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 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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National Museum of American History
Record ID
nmah_1845729
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6cec-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
Mumps (Boy in Auto) - Norman Rockwell Print - Commissioned by Merck to to Celebrate Their Work with Vaccines
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