M0003526: Attendant packing red lead

Date:
4 July 1933
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/29/7
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Credit

M0003526: Attendant packing red lead. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Public Health: working conditions

Description

Glass plate negative of two photographs. The top photograph is a print showing the process of a factory worker packing red lead, wearing a respirator (mask) with the inlet of an exhaust ventilator directly above. The bottom photograph is of a case of gas tar cancer on the wrist.

Publication/Creation

4 July 1933

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

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 2021.

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