M0001808: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "Emplacement Pasir Nagka"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Emplacement Pasir Nagka.

Reproduction of a bird's-eye view photograph with the caption "Emplacement Pasir Nagka" showing the location of Pasir Nangka, a village in the Banten Province, Indonesia. The reproduction is possibly from the Dutch newspaper Indische Mercuur, and described as "Kina, 1923" in the souvenir exhibition catalogue for Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The printed book, lent by Professor P. Van der Wielen, Laboratorium voor Artsenijbereidkunde van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, is listed as exhibit no. 568 in the souvenir catalogue. Related images: M0001809, M0001810, M0001811

March 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item may have been exhibited in

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.