Press Release from Merck Sharpe & Dohme for Mumpsvax
date: label: date made
content: ca 1966
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A press release from Merck Sharpe & Dohme announcing the distribution of Mumpsvax mumps vaccine. The press release is attached to a 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3081.03
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3081.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, vaccination, mumps
label: Object Name
content: press release
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 10 in; 40.005 cm x 25.4 cm