M0008637: Sir Henry Wellcome and staff at Jebel Moya / M0008638: "Photographic automatic kite trolley" used at Jebel Moya, c.1912-1913

Date:
27 May 1942
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/75/56
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Plan of Bankside, 17th century. [Jebel Moya]
Previous title, replaced September 2020: 'Photographic automatic kite'

Description

Two images on one negative: a photograph of Sir Henry Wellcome (centre) and staff at the archaeological excavations at Jebel Moya, Sudan, and a photograph of Wellcome's "photographic automatic kite trolley" aerial camera device used at the excavations.

Publication/Creation

27 May 1942

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds copies of a < a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jnrhnmrq">publication in which the images depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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