Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Artifacts and Photographs
Influenza Artifacts and Photographs from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Collection and Archive, Australia
Artifacts and photographs from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Collection and Archive who loaned their artifacts for display in this exhibition.
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Women at Commonwealth Serum Laboratories packing mixed bacterial composition vaccines, 1918
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet demonstrating his technique for growing influenza viruses in chicken eggs at the University of Wisconsin, 1952
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet laboratory workbook, 1944
Vaccine Batch Book, 1920
First Australian influenza vaccine advertisement, 1948
Card mailed to Australian doctors' offices in the late 1940s
Vaccine Production at Commonwealth Serum Laboratory, Australia, 1945
Influenza vaccine production at Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 1950s
Influenza vaccine advertisement, Australia, circa 1960
Influenza vaccine advertisement that appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia, March, 30, 1963
he Facts About the "Flu Furore" article, 1969
Page from the Staff News Magazine that circulated among Commonwealth Serum Laboratories’ employees describing the events around “Flu Furore” of 1969
Man working with influenza viruses at Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 1992