Postage stamps ephemera. Box 4.
- 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: Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Dahomey, Danzig, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Ecuador, Egypt. Includes: infant care, spas, a postcard of a convent in Brno where Mendel performed his genetics experiments, malaria prevention, Aleš Hrdlicka, medicinal plants, Red Cross, Red Cescent, Niels Stensen, disabled people, braille, heart disease, epilepsy, penicillin, vaccination, tuberculosis, Unicef, drug addiction.
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
- Red Cross
- Health Resorts
- Malariaprevention & control
- Leprosyprevention & control
- Persons with Disabilities
- Heart Diseasesprevention & control
- Epilepsy
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Plants, Medicinal
- Vaccination
- Czechoslovakia
- Czech Republic
- Benin
- Gdańsk
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Emirate of Dubai
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně
- Gregor Mendel
- Alex Hrdlicka
- Albert Schweitzer
- Robert Koch
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Niels Ryberg Finsen
- Nicolas Steno
- Marie Curie
- Alexander Fleming
- Pierre Curie
- Louis Pasteur
- Christiaan Barnard
- Camillo Golgi
- Jonas Salk
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- UNICEF
Where to find it
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