M0007459: Illustration of Japanese parturition chair

Date:
6 September 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/64/11
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Parturition chair, Japanese.

Description

Reproduction from an unidentified publication, of an illustration depicting a Japanese parturition or birthing chair. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 14th October 1935 (PHO 5274). A close-up copy of M0007458 has been crossed through on the other side of the plate.

Publication/Creation

6 September 1940

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 6.2 x 6.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5274.

Notes

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.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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Where to find it

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