M0001997: Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment nursing an isolated patient with pneumonic plague in the former region of Manchuria

Date:: 17 June 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/18/73

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001912-M0002212WT/D/1/20/1/18
        M0001997: Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment nursing an isolated patient with pneumonic plague in the former region of ManchuriaWT/D/1/20/1/18/73

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Patients with pneumonic plague in Manchuria.

Description

Photograph of two healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment nursing isolated patients during the Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreak in 1910-1911. The patient in the cubicle, whose hand only can be seen, is being given an injection.

Publication/Creation

17 June 1931

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm slide transparency; 5 x 5 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 2020.

Terms of use

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