'Dartford Museum' - 10 x 8 Negatives, Exhibition text

These images were used in an exhibition opened at the Wellcome Dartford site in 1989, to mark the centenary of Burroughs Wellcome & Co acquiring the site.

Mostly images of the staff and buildings of the Burroughs Wellcome factory, Dartford, with some images of explorers who used Burroughs Wellcome products.

Captions 1-67
2. Fancy Dress Dinner, Wellcome Club & Institute, 1906
3. Luncheon Tent 25th Anniversary Fete, 1905
6. Works staff, 1908
7. Ladies Section of the canteen, 1946
8. Wellcome Ladies Bowls Team, 1967
10. Tour of finished goods warehouse. Queens Award for Industry, July 1976
12. Dartford Works Fire Brigade, c.1898
15. The Library, Acacia Hall
15. Clocking out at Dartford, early 1900s
16. John Rose & Jarvo Chiesman, 1965
17. Chemical Manufacturing Dept. 1948
18. General Office Staff, 1915
19. Dartford Charter Day, 1933
20. Silver Gilt Mace
21. Dr Jowett, 1906
22. Stephen Hardaker. Hockey at Dartford, 1988
23. 25th Anniversary Fete, Wellcome Club & Institute, 1905
24. Annual Fete, Acacia Hall, c.1970
26. H. C. Sayer, 1909
27. Wellcome Philarmonic Society, 1913
28. Andrew Gray
29. Senior Management, past & present, 1987
31. Derek Robinson & Mike Francis, 1988
32. Dartford staff in 1900 with A. T. Hill
33. Ray Decker & Mavis Swift, 1975
35. Board Meeting at Dartford, 1979
38. Ladies Drawing Room, Wellcome Club & Institute, 1909
40. Packing 'Tabloid' Quinine Bisulphate, 1906
41. Gentleman's Dining Room, Wellcome Club & Institute, 1909 (2 copies)
43. Rita Masters filling 'Hazeline' Snow, 1970
44. Certificate of registration for Unicorn, 1908
51. Neelam Anand. Last jar of Hazeline Snow, 1970
53. Cod Liver Oil Barrels, Dartford Wharf, c.1905
60. Crates for Shipment, c.1912
63. Hallford Lorry, 1909
64. Workshop Dartford, c1909
65. Foden Steam Wagon, 1919
67. Robert Lee & Halford Lorry, 1910

68-113
68. Sowing seeds [Materia Medica Farm], 1912
69. Harrowing & Drilling, c1908
70. Hoeing Belladonna, 1912
71. Loading Belladonna, c.1908
74. Gathering Digitalis, 1926
79. Filling 'Kepler', 1946
80. Advanced Training School, 1946
81. Bismuth House, 1928
82. Chemical Manufactre Division, 1946
83. Control Labs, 1946
86. Employees in sterile products area working an ampoule machine, 1946
87. 'Tabloid' compressing machine, 1946
88. Control labs, 1946
89. Check weighing, 1946
90. Assembling cartons, 1946
91. Printing Dept, 1946
93. Autoclave Preparation Area, 1950
94. Chlorea vaccine for Libya, 1972
96. Tube Filling, c.1950
98. Analytical Control Labs, 1961
99. Roy Young, Leslie Davis, Control Distribution Dept.
101. John McGerie & Major Hassan mansur in Central Analytical Labs, 1975
102. Ampoule Filling Building 312, c.1970
103. Manufacturing 'Esbatal', 1966
107. Bob Smith, Emetine manuf. 1968
109. Peter Barclay, Emetine, 1970
110. Quality control
111. Vaccines for Romania, 1977
113. Emetine plant, 1969

Explorers 127-136
127. Shackleton's 'fartherst South', 9 January 1909, on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1908-9 (from left to right: Lieutenant Jameson Boyd Adams, Frank Wild and Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton; the photograph was taken by Dr Eric Marshall)
130. 'Terra Nova' of Cape Evans, 1910
128. Capt. John Noel developing film with 'Rytol' Mt Everest Expedition, 1922
131. Bleriot at Dover, 1909 (negative marked "Bleriot with his Bleriot XI after landing at Dover July 1909". This was the first flight across the English Channel)
132. H. M. Stanley, 1885
133. Rear-Admiral Byrd, 1934
134. Sir Alan Cobham and crew of the seaplane Valetta in 1931 following a pioneer survey flight to Lake Kivu in East Africa
135. Captain Bruce McCandless U.S.N. Mission 41B, world's first untethered 'space walk'
136. Capt. Scott, 1910
136. John Young, Commander on Apollo 16, 1972
136. Sir Alan Cobham, 1931
136. Mary French Sheldon [with Roger Casement?], c1903-1904
136. Major Martin, 1934

Text Panels
- Dinner Time, Dartford, c.1912
- Display of BW&Co products atInternational Medical & Sanitary Exhibition, London, 1881
- Billiard Room, Acacia Hall
- AA Patrol, c.1909
- Medicine Case for Queen Mary's Dolls House, 1924
- Insulin Advert, 1924
- BW&Co Advertisement for 'Suplhetrone' ("new treatment for Lepromatous Leprosy")
- Captain John Noel with 'Tabloid' photographic equipment & Tibetan porters, 1922
- 'Tabloid' medicine chest carried in Owala, Cameroon,1910
- Major Blake, US Army Air Corps 'Round the World Flight', 1924
- Isabella Bishop in Kurdistan & Persia, 1889-90

Site
- View with bridge, c1909-1910
- [Burroughs Wellcome Dartford site, c.1890s]
- Phoenix Paper Mills, 1855
- Plans, 1911
- Cover of Foundation News, December 1946 [Aerial view of Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford]

Roll of Honour
- Dr Sydney Smoth, Works Manager 1936-1940
- Wellcome Foundation Limited, 1945. J Russell (centre), Works Manager, 1941-1944
- Cutting from Foundation News, September 1947, with images of Mr J. C. W. Stead, Works Director, 1944-1947 and Mr P. A. Smith, Works Director, 1947-1952
- A. A. Gray, Works Director, 1952-1963
- Mr N. Berry, Site Director, 1967-1971

Text Labels
- Negativess and prints of text of display boards at the Dartford Museum, c.1989. Sections includes: 100 Years in Pursuit of Excellence; Early Years; Medicinal Plants; Medicine Chests; Transition; High Technology; Today & Beyond; Exploration
- Negs of text accompanying images at the Dartford Museum, c.1989. Numbers match with images in this series.

1855-1989

1 box [c.150 negatives]

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust