Kendall Emerson, Alix Churchill, Eleanor Brown Merrill

Description: When this photograph was taken in 1935, Dr. Alix Churchill (seated in center), Associate Secretary General of the International Association for Prevention of Blindness and Executive Secretary of the International Union against Tuberculosis, was on a speaking tour in the United States. Eleanor Brown Merrill was associate director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Physician Kendall Emerson (1907-1993) (at left) was managing director of the National Tuberculosis Association.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Date: 1935

Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5782

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2008-0105

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