M0001447: Reproduction of a map of Ecuador to illustrate Richard Spruce's report on the Red Bark of Ecuador

Black and white reproduction of a map of Ecuador to illustrate Richard Spruce's report on the Red Bark of Ecuador from the 19th century. The illustration was possibly displayed in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930, but has not been identified in the souvenir catalogue.

22 November 1930

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.

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