M0006091: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: vaccinating during the smallpox epidemic of 1921, Palestine

Date:: 09 February 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/50/90

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        M0006091: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: vaccinating during the smallpox epidemic of 1921, PalestineWT/D/1/20/1/50/90

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M0006091: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: vaccinating during the smallpox epidemic of 1921, Palestine. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of a display board from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum comprising a photograph of a child being vaccinated against smallpox and images of three thorns used in the vaccination process with a caption beneath. The photograph is a reproduction of one published in The Lancet 1926 vol.1 p.213 and was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10681).

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09 February 1939

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1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

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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.

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