M0007329: Illustration of early 15th century bath house with steam heating

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Bath house with steam heating, early 15th century.

Photograph of an illustration from Martin, Albert, Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen : nebst einem Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Wasserheilkunde, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1906, after a drawing. The illustration depicts an early 15th century bath house with steam heating. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 30th August 1935 (PHO 4230). Related images: M0007328, M0007333, M0007334, M0007337, M0007345, M0007352, M0007353, M0007355, M0007338, M0007335

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 4230.

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.