M0003212: At work in a cotton factory / M0003212EB: General view of Preston, Lancashire

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Industrialisation: 19th c. town in Lancashire

Left-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of workers in a cotton factory with caption underneath. Right-hand side of the plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, after possibly a painting, of Preston in the early 19th century showing residential houses and factories in the background and fields in the foreground.

02 November 1932

3 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm sheet film; 10 x 12.5 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 2020.

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