M0008663: Display of Burroughs Wellcome tabloid medicine chests

Date:
17 June 1942
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/75/73
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Burroughs Wellcome Tabloid, medicine chests

Description

Photograph of nine medicine chests from Africa, two of which (numbers 2 and 6) were used by Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Reproduced in The romance of exploration and emergency first-aid from Stanley to Byrd, New York City [etc.]: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, [1934?]. Related images: M0008664, M0008665

Publication/Creation

17 June 1942

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

Where to find it

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