Photographs

This group contains photographs and slides generated by the various Wellcome bodies. They have been grouped together here because many of the images, for example of the buildings, have common relevance to several or all the bodies, and it is not always clear which body generated them originally. Indeed, some of them may have been produced as an exercise to illustrate the work of the Wellcome bodies as a whole, and not intended to serve one body in particular. As they had been removed, at same point, from their original archival context, their exact provenance and purpose has been lost.

The Iconographic Department of the Library does hold duplicates of some of these images, and the Wellcome Medical Photograph Library holds some original and copy negatives.

The extensive collection of photographs relating to HSW's personal life are listed separately at WA/HSW/PH. These also include many images relating to his wider research interests, including, for example, photographs of the WRI building and HMM receptions.

Persons or organisations featured in this material include:

WA/PHO/Wri Wellcome Research Institution, premises 1931-1944

WA/PHO/Hmm Historical Medical Museum 1913-1979

WA/PHO/Trl Tropical Research Laboratories 1907-1970

WA/PHO/Mms Museum of Medical Science c.1925-1985

WA/PHO/Kel Dr Kellaway's slides c.1947

WA/PHO/Tru Wellcome Trust 1945-1985

Abbreviations used in the catalogue:

HMM Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

HSW Henry Solomon Wellcome

MMS Wellcome Museum of Medical Science

TRL Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum

WRI Wellcome Research Institution

WTI Wellcome Tropical Institute.