Slides of various advertising material

Date:
1885-c.1990
Reference:
WF/M/I/V/3
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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Description

Originally attributed as 'IPE'
* Pharmacy sign c. 1885 advertising Burroughs Wellcome & Co's products, image used in Robert Rhodes James, 'Henry Wellcome';
* other advertising images include "The age of speed" with Wellcome logo and racing car; "Sell products of Repute…Efficiency in display"; "Profit and Pleasure" image; early product, Bicarbonate of soda packaging; "illustrations of some recent packings" illustrating 7 products and packaging; 'Borofax' advert; Burinexa advert; Dovonex advert; image of postcard, illustration "How medical substances are synthesised";
* May 1907 contents page for Price list and notes; image of 'The Charioteer'; Daedalus and Icarus image and description taken from a diary;
* front cover of 'List of Fine Products 1921';
* 'Menthofax' adverts x 3;
* Menthol image used 'In Pursuit of Excellence' p 27/5;
* 'Humanised milk for Infant Feeding';
* Tabloid Sulphaguanidine advert;
* Inhaler advert;
* 'Chinese style' calendars x 2;
* 'The King of waters for Kidney disease- Buffalo Springs water';
* Migril advert;
* frontispiece of 'Anaesthetics- Antient and Modern';
* Print of St. Sebastian advert for 'Welfare Work';
* Hazeline' products adverts x9 slides include;
* Hazeline Snow c.1890, " The cult of Beauty" c. 1929;
* Singapore advert;
* Hazeline Cream advert x 2;
* "Hazeline Snow- Gives Natural Charm";
* Hazeline Snow advert c 1936 artwork, pastel;
* Kepler adverts x5 include Kepler malt extract, Kepler solution, Kepler cold liver oil with malt;
* image of Snow Hill, interior, image used in Robert Rhodes James, 'Henry Wellcome';
* Wellferon product and packaging;
* images of original black and white photographs of Wellcome employees, 2 group shots, 1 interior shot of men working, 1 shot of machinery, 1 shot of women walking along path carrying baskets full of leaves, (of Digitalis Materia Medica Farm, Dartford);
* 'Tabloid' adverts include: Sodiym Salicylate; laxative vegetable; Digitalis leaf; AA Kit medical bag with contents laid out on table; Tea; Captain Scott and team photograph developed with 'Rytol' and 'Tabloid Blue Toner'; oriental style, 'Tabloid Tea'; medicine chest; Mount Everest Expedition of 1936 and 1938 Medicine Chest image used in 'In Pursuit of Excellence' p. 43.

Publication/Creation

1885-c.1990

Physical description

3 Sheets (60 Slides) Colour 35mm plastic mounted slides

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