A woman with plague, lying on a stretcher in the sunshine.
- Date:
- [approximately 1896]
- Reference:
- 539278i
- Part of:
- The Fallaize Collection.
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Previous title, replaced July 2022: An Indian woman, a victim of plague, lying on a stretcher in the sunshine. Photograph, ca.1896.
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India suffered an epidemic of plague in 1896-7
Publication/Creation
[approximately 1896]
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
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This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 539278i
Ownership note
Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.
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