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Macintosh Picture Format  |  1996-09-10  |  270KB  |  640x480  |  8-bit (194 colors)

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OCR: Giant Mosquito Model 91 AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THE AMERICAN Museum of Natural History Giant Mosquito Model played an active role public health education In the late 1880s and early 1900s malaria yellow fever and other insect -spread diseases were serious health threats in the New York metropolitan area This wax model an Anomheles mosquito seventy-five times life-size was created the Museum by R Dahl gren Curator 0 Arts and Preparation inform the public in the New York City area about dangerous outbreak of malaria which is transmitted by mosquitoes and to make sure that Anopheles

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