M0019562: Letter to Joseph Lister awarding him the Catherine Medal of the Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie, 1877

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Letter to Lister awarding him the Catherine Medal, 1877

Photograph of a letter dated 23 May 1877 awarding Lister the Catherine Medal of the Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie. It is one of a number of photographs accumulated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of its exhibition held in 1927 to celebrate the centenary of Lister, in conjunction with The Royal Society, The British Universities Hospitals and Medical and Surgical Colleges.

August 1963

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds several files about the exhibition: WA/HMM/EX/A

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 2022.

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