M0003211: Aerial view of cotton mills in Preston / M0003211EB: "A Typical Manufacturing Town"

Date:
02 November 1932
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/26/28
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M0003211: Aerial view of cotton mills in Preston / M0003211EB: "A Typical Manufacturing Town". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Aerial view of Preston, 19th century

Description

Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication of an aerial view of cotton mills in Preston, Lancashire, with caption. Left-hand side of plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, after a photograph, of an aerial view of Preston's factories next to a residential area, with caption underneath. Glass plate made for Sir George Newman (1870-1948), English public health physician and first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England on the topic of 'Health and Hygiene in the Factory and Workshop'.

Publication/Creation

02 November 1932

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

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.

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