Joe and Sylvia Brilliant, Detroit, c. 1943.
Larry with his brother, Barry, at Larry’s fifth birthday.
Article in Detroit newspaper about Larry’s father’s testimony before the McClellan Committee, which investigated the Mafia’s involvement in the jukebox industry, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Larry’s father appeared before the committee at the request of Robert F. Kennedy, committee counsel.
Larry and Elaine’s wedding, Detroit, May 25, 1969.
Elaine and Larry, San Francisco, 1969.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., University of Michigan, 1962.
Larry and other radical MDs on the cover of the Medical World News published a few days before the start of Larry’s medical internship at Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco.
Larry arriving on Alcatraz to help deliver the baby Wovoka, 1970.
Poster for Medicine Ball Caravan, the Warner Bros. movie the Hog Farm appeared in.
Larry’s best friend, Wavy Gravy.
Wavy and Jerry Garcia, early 1970s.
Larry performing surgery on a local Tibetan, Nepal, 1971.
Ram Dass and Maharaji, Kainchi, 1971.
Wavy and Jah (Bonnie Jean) in Amsterdam, 1970.
Larry and Elaine with Hog Farm bus, Khyber Pass, Afghanistan, 1971.
Girija at Kainchi ashram during polio program, post-2000.
Larry and Girija at the Taj Mahal, holding photo of Maharaji, 1972 or 1973.
Girija at Kainchi, 1972.
Maharaji with Western devotees, with translator Ravi Khanna standing far right, Kainchi, 1972.
With Maharaji, Kainchi, 1973.
Front of diary Larry kept during smallpox campaign. The handwritten note, written in Hindi, is from the Ramayana: “Until I have completed God’s assigned work, I cannot rest.”
Front of postcard with Maharaji’s prediction, printed and distributed in 1974, six years before smallpox was declared eradicated.
Hanuman statue at Maharaji’s temple.
Maharaji with Li Gotami and Lama Govinda, Almora, India, 1960s.
Sixteenth Karmapa (back left), tickling Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Rumtek, 1974.
Girija with Maharaji, Kainchi, 1971.
Nicole Grasset and Larry at WHO meeting, New Delhi, 1974.
Dr. Halfdan Mahler, WHO director general, honoring smallpox workers, New Delhi, 1976.
Larry with “Papa” (Dr. M. I. D. Sharma), in front of Shitala Ma painting, 1974 or 1975.
Doctors R. N. Basu and M. I. D. Sharma with Saiban Bibi, last case of smallpox in India.
Larry with D. A. Henderson (second from left), head of the WHO smallpox program, during Henderson’s visit to the Chotanagpur headquarters in Ranchi, Bihar, 1974.
Larry receiving award from SEARO regional director Dr. Gunaratne, New Delhi, 1976. (“It turned out all right,” he said. “I forgive you for bombarding the WHO office.”)
Larry with Dr. Dave Sencer, director of CDC, Bihar, 1974.
Tata staff and WHO epidemiologists, Tatanagar, 1974.
Shitala Ma, goddess of smallpox.
Larry and Girija with Czech epidemiologist Dr. V. Janout showing smallpox recognition card, Ranchi district, Chotanagpur, Bihar, 1974.
Tata Hospital doctor with smallpox patient, Tatanagar, 1974.
Another view of patient in recognition card—he survived.
Letter of advice from Maharaji in 1973, when Larry was distressed after seeing his first case of smallpox. Maharaji’s advice in Hindi was one word repeated over and over, “God, God, God” (Ram, Ram, Ram).
Larry with smallpox-infected child near Tatanagar, 1974.
Smallpox-blinded beggar, Kainchi, 2005.
Girija with Maharaji and other devotees, including R. P. Vaish, at the home of the Barman family, New Delhi, 1973.
Smallpox workers enforcing ban on travel outside the city without vaccination, Tatanagar, 1974.
Larry, Girija, and Paula and Bill Foege, Amman, Jordan, 2012.
Global Commission to Certify Smallpox Eradication statement signed by commission members, 1980.
Rahima Banu, last case of killer smallpox, Bhola Island, Bangladesh, 1975. The photo was taken by Larry; the balloon was printed two years prior in San Francisco.
First days at Google as executive director of Google.org, 2006.
Wired magazine cover story on the Well.
Steve Jones, M. I. D. Sharma, Girija, and Larry in Ann Arbor, 1977.
Larry giving polio vaccination, Lucknow, 2005.
Larry using an Apple II computer donated to Seva by Steve Jobs, Kathmandu, 1979 or 1980.
Larry with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, San Francisco, 2009.
With President Barack Obama, at meeting about Ebola, Roosevelt Room, White House, 2015.
With slum dwellers in Allahabad during polio campaign, 2005.
With Jeff Skoll at Reagan Presidential Library during meeting of Global Zero campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.
With Mikhail Gorbachev (right) in San Francisco after discussing the Soviet Union’s attempt to weaponize smallpox.
Iris Brilliant, age three, in California
Maharaji in one of the last photos taken of him, probably in late August 1973, a few weeks before he died, taken by a Western devotee on Larry’s Rollei camera.
Joe Brilliant, age one, in India.
Jon Brilliant, age twenty-four, in Beijing in front of President Jiang Jemin poster.