M0007468: Compartment from naval medicine chest

Photograph of a pulled out compartment including contents from a 16th century naval medicine chest viewed from above. The chest was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 10th April 1946 (R103/1946) but is not held by Wellcome Collection. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 16th October 1935 (PHO 5377). Related images: M0007465, M0007466, M0007467, M0007464, M0007469, M0007469EB, M0007470.

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:R103/1946. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photogr

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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