London School of Medicine for Women: people and buildings. Photographs, ca. 1928.

[1928?]

1 photograph album (57 photographs) : photoprints ; album pages 20.2 x 25 cm

Cover printed with Art Nouveau design and brand of album: Sun pictures

Fol. 2r photograph (13 x 8 cm.) of a seated student in a laboratory in front of a microscope; another (same dimensions) shows an older woman seated on outdoor bench knitting

Fol. 3v photograph (14.5 x 20 cm.) of the students, in academic robes and mortarboards, being presented to the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II) and civic dignitaries

Fol 4r photograph (17.5 x 23.5 cm.) of 'A souvenir of the visit of students of the London School of Medicine for Women to the laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., Hounslow, on December 5th, 1928.': twenty-five students, in three rows, with a printed key giving their names at the foot of the page. (The school had strong ties with India, operating a hostel for Indian students in conjunction with the India Office, and present in the front row is one Indian student, 'L. Arratoon'.)

Fol. 5v photograph (19 x 14 cm.) of three ladies fashionably attired in evening gowns, with a gentleman standing behind

Fol. 6r photographic postcard showing St Giles Hospital, Camberwell and photographs of an ambulance outside the hospital

Other fols.: thirty-one small photographs (6.5 x 4 cm) showing informal scenes of happy students at work and play. Other, larger photographs include group and individual portraits of the school staff, both men and women. The women are occasionally dressed in lab coats, but more often in the fashions of the day, with cloche hats and even a fox fur. Four feature women playing golf

Wellcome Collection 665196i