Postage stamps ephemera. Box 6.
- Ephemera
About this work
Description
Box file containing postage stamps, first day covers and postmarks on medical subjects in acid free sleeves. Stamps are dated with Stanley Gibbons number (where possible). Countries are: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hungary. (Note: Great Britain is in 715A). Includes: Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council, 1st Hellenic Nephrology Conference (1980), microscopes, disability, disabled sports, Charles Calmette, rheumatology,Selye János, medicinal plants, Red Cross emergency services, 14th International Cancer Conference (Budapest, 1986), poliomyelitis, measles, smallpox, vaccination, cardiology, national health care (Grenada).
Physical description
1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in "Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights" at Wellcome Collection, 19 September 2024 – 27 April 2025 .
Languages
Subjects
- Malariaprevention & control
- Red Cross
- Persons with Disabilities
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonaryprevention & control
- Ambulances
- Emergency Medical Services
- Plants, Medicinal
- Measlesprevention & control
- Smallpoxprevention & control
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Avicenna
- Asclepius
- Hippocrates
- Robert Koch
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Louis Braille
- Marie Curie
- Henry Dunant
- Helen Keller
- Louis Pasteur
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Edward Jenner
- Sigmund Freud
- Emil von Behring
- Carl Jung
- William Harvey
- Alexander Fleming
- Ambroise Paré
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- Albert Schweitzer
- St. John Ambulance Canada
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH715Note