M0005451: Pilgrims at Our Lady of Lourdes, France

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Pilgrims kneeling before shrine of our Lady of Lourdes.

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Pilgrim filling flasks with the 'Miraculous Water'.

Two images on one negative. The first is a reproduction of a photograph of pilgrims kneeling before the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. The second is a reproduction of a photograph of a pilgrim filling flasks with the Miraculous Water from the Spring at Our Lady of Lourdes. The photographs are from Weekly Illustrated c.1937. They were compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938. Related images: V0048854

March 1938

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the one of the items depicted in the glass plate negative: 578615i.

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.

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