M0010406: Throwing water on the streets of Exeter during the cholera outbreak of 1832

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Throwing water on the street in Exeter.

Reproduction of an engraving published in Shapter, Thomas: The history of the cholera in Exeter in 1832, London : J. Churchill, 1849

23 January 1948

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2021.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.