Colonial empire: Anti-sleeping-sickness mobile unit taking blood for microscopic examination – Antique Print
![Colonial empire: Anti-sleeping-sickness mobile unit taking blood for microscopic examination, [ca. 1949] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e6/e6beda1b5f31-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Colonial empire: Anti-sleeping-sickness mobile unit taking blood for microscopic examination. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Colonial empire: Anti-sleeping-sickness mobile unit taking blood for microscopic examination
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Here, a mobile unit draws blood from residents of an African village so it can be examined under a microscope, a standard step in the campaign against sleeping sickness. The disease, spread by tsetse flies, caused deadly epidemics across central and western Africa for decades. Teams like this one moved from village to village screening large populations, because early infections often produced few symptoms and were easy to miss without testing. Photographs such as this one, made around 1949 under the "Colonial empire" heading, presented such medical outreach as proof of administrative care, and today they document how public health work was carried out in the field.
| Created / published | [ca. 1949] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | No. 6. |
| Subjects | Blood testing--Africa--1940-1950. Mobile health units--Africa--1940-1950. Health care--Africa--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163201 |
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