Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols

What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.

  • Article

Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

  • Article

How to cure the eco-anxious

Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?

  • Article

Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

All stories (4)

Images

  • The words 'AIDS' and 'RED CROSS' written in red within a statement from the American Red Cross promoting their services to those living with AIDS. Colour lithograph 1990.
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Leaflet about the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., its history and its museums areas].
  • [Certificate issued by the American Red Cross in 1945 in recognition of more than 500 hours of volunteer service. ].
  • Recto: a graphic black figure on his hands and knees holding a decorative bowl with in a decorated border; an illustration to a Guinean; fourth of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.
  • Recto: a graphic black figure on his hands and knees holding a decorative bowl with in a decorated border; an illustration to a Guinean; fourth of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
  • Children going to a clinic for a health check to prevent the advance of disease. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.
All images (40)

Catalogue

All works (203)