‘Drugs solving the meat problem’
Date
1945
Creator
William Augustin Kolliker (1905 - 1995, Swiss-born American) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 395mm
width (print): 275mm
width (print): 275mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Cartoon graphic illustration of giant-sized germs snatching piglets on their way to market. Supporting an article on the use of penicillin with other pharmaceuticals and chemicals in American animal husbandry.
Detail of a newspaper cutting, apparently from the Sunday supplement The American Weekly (New York, USA, 1896-1966) but with the (erroneous?) cutting service label of the California Examiner (Los Angeles, California USA), 24 June 1945.
Captioned: ‘Disease Germs Are Robbing the Pork Barrel by Killing Off One Baby Pig in Three’. Signed lower right ‘W.Kolliker.’ From the archive collection of Howard Florey.
William Augustin Kolliker (1905-1995) Swiss-born American illustrator was Art Director and Art Editor of the American Weekly.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
Detail of a newspaper cutting, apparently from the Sunday supplement The American Weekly (New York, USA, 1896-1966) but with the (erroneous?) cutting service label of the California Examiner (Los Angeles, California USA), 24 June 1945.
Captioned: ‘Disease Germs Are Robbing the Pork Barrel by Killing Off One Baby Pig in Three’. Signed lower right ‘W.Kolliker.’ From the archive collection of Howard Florey.
William Augustin Kolliker (1905-1995) Swiss-born American illustrator was Art Director and Art Editor of the American Weekly.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
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