Founders, Explorers and Medals

Negatives and prints of the founders of Burroughs Wellcome & Co (BW&Co); explorers who carried BW&Co products with them on their travels; Wellcome Laboratories and medals associated with the Wellcome organisation.

Images arranged into the following sections:

Events (7 images)
- British Society of the History of Pharmacy Presidential Badge, presented by Wellcome Foundation, 1983
- Prints and negatives of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

Explorers (15 images) - Captain Scott, 1910-1912 British Antarctic Expedition (image developed with 'Tabloid' Rytol)
- Captain Amundsen, c1913
- Captain Amundsen & Admiral byrd, 1926
- 'Wellcome Dispensary', Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, 1929
- Fridtjof Nansen & 'The Fram', 1893-1896 Expedition
- Robert E Peary's Medicine Case taken to North Pole, 1909
- Admiral Robert E Peary, 1913
- Captain Scott's BW&Co Medicine Cases, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910
- May French Sheldon in palanquin given by Henry Wellcome, c1902
- H. M. Stanley's BW&Co Medicine Case carried on the Emin Pasha relief expedition, 1887
- H. M. Stanley's Medicine Case
- 'Raising the Flag': Painting to commemorate Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Mr Charles Burton at North Pole, Transglobal Expedition, 1982
- Frame from Scott of the Antarctic film, 1948

Founders - Henry Wellcome (2 images)
- Henry Wellcome, portrait
- Henry Wellcome, last portrait
- Henry Wellcome, c1880

Founders - Silas Mainville Burroughs (7 images)
- Silas M Burroughs, c1880
- Silas Burroughs, 1890 - Burroughs in Adelaid, 1882
- Burroughs's Statue of Liberty subscription

HSW - Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories / Interests / Family (21 images) - Floating Laboratory
- Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (Captain Archibald's Room)
- Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (Animal Houses)
- The Daily Mail, 1932 New Year's Honours
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Knighthood, Coat of Arms
- Henry Wellcome's certificate of naturalisation, 1910
- Henry Wellcome, lying in state, 1936
- Wellcome & Burroughs Article of Partnership
- Memo written by Henry Wellcome relating to the welfare of his cats
- Syrie Wellcome
- Wellcome's cousin[?] - Henry and Mounteney Wellcome

Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories - King St (1 image)
- WCRL, 3rd floor

Medals (awarded by and awarded to Burroughs Wellcome and the Wellcome Foundation) (14 images)
- [Austrian medal] - Hackney Photographic Society
- Cotton States and International Exposition, awarded to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1895
- The Henry S Wellcome Medal
- Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
- Queenland International Exhibition, Certificate of Merit Gold Medal, 1897
- African Award, 1982
- Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Gold Medal, Awarded 1980 to Cesar Milstein, Medical Research Council

1880-1982

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