M0003619: Greenwich palance and Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital

Date:
2 October 1933
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/29/88
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M0003619: Greenwich palance and Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Dread N Ought

Description

Photograph of a print publication of two images. The top image shows a view of old Greenwich Palace in the background, given as a hospital for old sailors, and showing Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital to the right in Greenwich, London. Dreadnought was used as a first hospital ship for infectious diseases with an ambulance boat alongside. The bottom image is a photograph of the gateway of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, with a statue of its founder, King Henry VIII.

Publication/Creation

2 October 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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