'Dartford Museum' - Prints: Dartford site, opening of 'Dartford Museum'

Date:
c.1889-1989
Reference:
WF/M/I/DM/01/02
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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About this work

Description

Prints of the Burroughs Wellcome & Co Dartford site itself, with some prints of explorers and aviators, who used Burroughs Wellcome Tabloid products.

These images were part of an exhibition at the Wellcome Dartford site opened in 1989, to mark the centenary of Burroughs Wellcome & Co acquiring the site. Also included here are contact prints taken at the opening of the exhibition in 1989.

Text panels
- Henry S. Wellcome, 1906. Oil painting by H. Riviere.
- Dinner time, Burroughs & Wellcome, [Dartford Works] c1912/13. (4 copies, 4 different sizes, 2 postcards)
- Silas Ward, Livingstone Hospital, [Dartford], Dec 1988.
- Tom Waterman crushing belladonna leaves, 1921. No. 16, 88/12.
- AA Patrol, c1909. (2 copies)
- Medicine case of Queen Mary's Dolls House, 1924 [Minature medicine case designed by BW&Co].
- Isabella Bishop, 1889-90 [Pioneer Traveller and Author. Image shows Miss Bishop giving medical supplies to villagers from her 'Tabloid' Medicine Chest, during her journey from Baghdad to Tehran].
- 'Tabloid' medicine chest carried in Duala, Cameroon, 1910.
- Major Blake. US Army Air Corps 'Round the World Flight', 1924.
- Capt. John Noel with photographic equipment & porters, [Himalayan expedition] 1922.

Site
- Phoenix Wharf, Dartford. (4 copies, 4 different sizes)
- Phoenix Paper Mills, Dartford, 1855.
- View of Dartford site, c1896. (3 copies, 2 different sizes)
- Fete at opening of Dartford Works, [images from the Pictorial World], 1889.
- Dartford Works, c1892.
- Tabloid building [early stage of construction], 1898.
- Tabloid building [middle stage of construction], 1899.
- [panoramic view of] Tabloid building under construction [final stage], 1899.
- View with bridge, 1909/10. (2 copies)
- Plan of site, May 1911. (3 copies, 2 different sizes)
- Exterior of Works, Dartford, 1911.
- Part of Works, Dartford, 1912 [taken with a kite camera].
- [Part of Works, Dartford], Sept 1912 [taken with a kite camera?].
- [Wellcome Chemical Works], 1912.
- Portion of the Water Front, Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford, c1913.
- Wellcome Chemical Works, 1946.
- Temple Hill, Dartford, No. 2 panorama, 1932.
- Temple Hill, Dartford, No. 3 panorama, 1932.
- Panoramas of Chemical Works & Materia Medica Farm from roof of new pharmaceutical building, 1955.
- [Wellcome Chemical Works] 1977.
- [Wellcome Chemical Works], Aerial view, 1989.
- [Wellcome Chemical Works], May 1989.
- Steelwork erection to building 85, March 1989.
- Steelwork erection to building 85, March 1989.

Adverts
- [Dictionary definition of 'Tabloid' photographed]

Roll of Honour
- A.A. Gray, Works director 1952-63.

Centenary Opening and Museum Contacts
- Dartford Museum opening, 3 July 1989. (2 copies)
- [Dartford Museum opening, 3 July 1989]
- [Dartford Museum opening, 3 July 1989] (2 copies)
- [Dartford Museum opening, 3 July 1989]
- [Dartford Museum exhibits] Jan 1990. C40235.
- [Aerial view] Nov 1989. C39803. (2 copies)
- [Aerial view] Nov 1989. C39804. (2 copies)
- Sheet E [Dartford Museum opening]
- Sheet F [Dartford Museum opening]
- Sheet G [Dartford Museum]
- Sheet H
- Sheet J [Dartford Museum]
- Sheet K [Dartford Museum opening luncheon?]
- Sheet A [Dartford Museum opening]
- Sheet B
- Sheet C [Dartford Museum opening]
- Sheet D [Dartford Museum opening]
- [Dartford Museum: British Antarctic Expedition exhibits, etc?]
- [Dartford Museum exhibits] C39259
- [Dartford Museum exhibits] C39360
- [Dartford Museum exhibits] C39258

Publication/Creation

c.1889-1989

Physical description

1 box [c.60 prints]

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