M0001572: Photograph of factory workers collecting and baling Cinchona by hydraulic press, Ceylon

Date:: 07 January 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/14/71

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001502-M0001602WT/D/1/20/1/14
        M0001572: Photograph of factory workers collecting and baling Cinchona by hydraulic press, CeylonWT/D/1/20/1/14/71

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M0001572: Photograph of factory workers collecting and baling Cinchona by hydraulic press, Ceylon. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Collecting and baling cinchona by hydraulic press, Ceylon.

Description

Black and white photograph of "Finished Cinchona bales, manufactured by means of hydraulic press". The original photograph was lent by Professor A. Tschirch (of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berne) for 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. The photograph is listed as exhibit no. 464 in the souvenir catalogue. The item is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

07 January 1931

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10 x 12.5 cm photographic print; 10 x 12.5 cm

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Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

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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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