Among the seven thousand documents from Belisário Penna's personal files that can be found at Departamento de Arquivo e Documentação da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, there are 1500 photographs of Penna himself, his relatives, his work as a sanitation doctor in more than 22 Brazilian states, his relationship with Oswaldo Cruz and with political movements of his time. Penna's biography is narrated by means of his personal photos.
Belisário Penna; biographies; Brazilian history; sanitation; photographs