Drugs in Victorian Britain : Friday 11 February, 19.00-21.00 & Saturday 12 February, 10.30-17.30 / Wellcome Collection.

  • Wellcome Collection.
Date:
2010
  • Ephemera

About this work

Also known as

High Society.

Description

Card showing a portrait of a Victorian man against a bright blue background. He has a moustache and yellow concentric circles round his eyes implying drugged stupor. It is advertising magic lantern performances and talks about opium, morphine, cocaine and cannabis being on sale in every high street pharmacy in 19th century Britain at Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

Publication/Creation

London : Wellcome Trust, 2010.

Physical description

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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Notes

At head of title: High Society.
Dated December 2010.

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Where to find it

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    EPH729
  • Location Access
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    EPH729:86

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