Biographies of Key People Related to the Yellow Fever Commission

Click on the portraits below to view biographies of some of the individuals (Walter Reed, Jesse Lazear, Aristides Agramonte, James Carroll, Carlos J. Finlay, Henry Rose Carter, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and George Miller Sternberg) who played a role in the history of yellow fever and the United States Army Yellow Fever Commission.

Walter Reed, 1901. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Box-folder 87:38. Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

Walter Reed

Portrait of Jesse Lazear, 1896. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Box-folder 79:25, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

Jesse Lazear

Aristides Agramonte Simoni, circa 1902. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Box-folder 76:20. Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

Aristides Agramonte Simoni

James Carroll, circa 1900. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Box-folder 76:88. Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

James Carroll

Carlos J. Finlay, circa 1900. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, 88:33. Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

Carlos J. Finlay

Henry Rose Carter in Panama, 1909. Henry Rose Carter Papers, 1775-1947, MS-10, Box-folder: 4:19. Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and Services, University of Virginia.

Henry Rose Carter

Jefferson Randolph Kean, circa 1918. Images from the History of Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Jefferson Randolph Kean

George Miller Sternberg, circa 1900.Sternberg, M.L. (1920). George Miller Sternberg: a biography. Chicago: American Medical Association. Frontispiece.

George Miller Sternberg