Photograph of M.V. Egori, Elder Dempster

PR/698/20

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35mm slide by Peter Henwood, 1968. Image shows the bow of M.V. Egori, Elder Dempster. Henwood's notes indicate that the photograph was taken near "Monkey Island", six small islands in the Farmington and Little Bassa Rivers in Liberia, where chimpanzees were used as test subjects by New York Blood Center scientists searching for a Hepatitis B vaccine.