M0001814: Reproduction of a photograph showing the machinery used to fill sacks with crushed cinchona bark, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Filling sacks with the crushed cinchona bark.

Black and white reproduction of a photograph possibly taken from a publication described as Rosberger, J. C. A.: "Bezoek aan het Kina-Bureau en establissementen to Amsterdam" [Visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments to Amsterdam], page 11, in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The image has the captions "Mededeelingen van het Kina-bureau" above, and "Kruisslagmolens. De voorste in geopenden stand. Onder in het kastje de zak met gummiring" underneath. The image was reproduced from a publication lent by Professor P. Van der Wielen, Laboratorium voor Artsenijbereidkunde van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, and is listed as exhibit no. 574 in the souvenir catalogue. Related images: M0001812, M0001813, M0001815

March 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item may have been exhibited in

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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