M0001897EA: Two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 / M0001897EB: Landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London

Date:
22 May 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/17/87
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.

Description

Two images on one negative: a black and white reproduction of a two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 (bottom) and a black and white reproduction of an illustration of a landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London (top). They are reproduced from Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], possibly plates LX and XXIV. Related images: M0001895, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

Publication/Creation

22 May 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

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.

Terms of use

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