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Date: 20th centuryReference: WF/MPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Smith, Colonel Frederick, CB, CMG, DSO (1858-1933) RAMC
Date: early 20th centuryReference: MS.8701- Pictures
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A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
Hérault, Pierre.Reference: 17292i- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
Clean and sparkling : soaps & detergents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 30 November - 27 February 1999 / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1998