M0003526: Attendant packing red lead

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Public Health: working conditions

Glass plate negative of two photographs. The top photograph is a print showing the process of a factory worker packing red lead, wearing a respirator (mask) with the inlet of an exhaust ventilator directly above. The bottom photograph is of a case of gas tar cancer on the wrist.

4 July 1933

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

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 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.