M0003407: Arm showing symptoms of "Doffers disease" / M0003407EB: "Sorting Wool in the Cloth Industry"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Doffers disease.

Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication of an arm showing symptoms of "Doffers disease", a skin rash common among doffers who remove full bobbins of linen and cotton thread from spinning frames, with caption underneath. Right-hand side on plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, after a photograph, of a machine used to sort wool, with caption underneath.

14 March 1933

4 photographs glass plate negative, photographic prints; range in size from 6.2 x 8.8 cm to 12 x 16.5 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.