Photograph album

Date:
late 19th century - early 20th century
Reference:
WA/HSW/PH/E
Part of:
Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
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Contains: 356 images

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Photograph album. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The album includes various photographs: bust by Edoardo Simone; Henry Wellcome receiving an honorary degree from Edinburgh University, 1928; Henry Wellcome in Milwaukee 1936; Sir Henry Wellcome and Peter Johnston-Saint 1935; Cinchona Celebration dinner 1930; medals and certificates including a certificate showing Henry Wellcome's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society; Henry Wellcome's coffin in auditorium; Henry Wellcome in USA 1935; JL Toole signed photographs; Savage Club dinner; Cup presented to the Wigwam Club by Henry Wellcome; Genevieve Ward's funeral; laying the cornerstone ceremony; copies of photographs of Henry Wellcome as young man, family, S. M. Burroughs.

Includes the following previously individually catalogued photographs:
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/1: Cup presented to the Wigwam Club by Henry Wellcome, 1880s. M0003045. Previous caption: The Wigwam Club was one of the men-only, private social clubs Wellcome was involved in during the late nineteenth century. Its name references Wellcome's lifelong interest in Native American culture.
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/2: Henry Wellcome receiving an honorary degree from Edinburgh University, 1928. M0008128. Previous caption: It was not until 1928 that Henry Wellcome's achievements were recognised by a British University; probably as a result of the unease the scientific establishment felt towards Wellcome's business background.
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/3: Last portrait taken of Sir Henry Wellcome, 1935. M0005108. Previous caption:
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/4: Sir Henry Wellcome and Peter Johnston-Saint, 1936. M0004582. Previous caption: Photograph taken in Florida during Wellcome's last trip to the United States in 1936. An ex-Indian Army officer with impeccable social connections (the Queen of Spain was a childhood friend) and excellent linguistic skills, the dashing figure of Captain Peter Johnston-Saint (1886-1974) seems more at home in the pages of a John Buchan novel than in the world of inter-war book collecting. Joining the staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1920, Johnston-Saint rose to a position of Wellcome's 'Foreign Secretary' (in reality, a full-time roving ambassador for the Museum), and made highly successful trips through Europe, the Near East and India, all recorded in his colourful travel diaries. Having friends in the right places was imperative: in 1933 Johnston commissioned one Hirmiz Petrus - a cousin of a clerk to King Faisal of Iraq - to aid in the purchase of manuscripts in Iran and Iraq. Johnston-Saint's skills as a collector were recognised not only by his employer but by foreign governments: his programme for collecting memorabilia on French medical men directly led to his appointment (along with Wellcome) to the Legion d'honneur for their interest in France's cultural heritage.
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/5: Title page of Henry Wellcome's college thesis on urethral suppositories, 1874. M0007874. Previous caption: In this dissertation, Wellcome focused not on a scientific problem but on a practical one: how to improve the quality of urethral suppositories. Wellcome suggested solutions to both their design and presentation; signs of the successful salesman Wellcome would become.
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/6: Certificate, showing Henry Wellcome's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1932. M0013141. Previous caption: The certificate is signed by Henry Dale, then one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, who had risen to prominence in the scientific community for research he had carried out at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratory. Wellcome's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1932 was symptomatic of how the British scientific community only recognised Wellcome's achievements late in his life.
  • WA/HSW/PH/E/7: Wellcome as a pall-bearer at the funeral of Dame Genevieve Ward, 1922. M0008625. Previous caption: From a first meeting in the early 1880s to her death in 1922, Dame Geneviève Ward had been one of Henry Wellcome's closest friends. Geneviève Ward (1837-1922) was an expatriate American opera singer and actress and Wellcome never forgot the friendship she had offered to him when he was a newcomer to London society.

    • Publication/Creation

    late 19th century - early 20th century

    Physical description

    1 album

    Acquisition note

    HSW

    Related material

    Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/5/52, WT/D/1/20/1/24/78 , WT/D/1/20/1/24/77, WT/D/1/20/1/36/98, WT/D/1/20/1/70/60, WT/D/1/20/1/70/21, WT/D/1/20/1/69/27, WT/D/1/20/1/69/26

    Location of duplicates

    A photograph of Sir Henry Wellcome’s coffin in the auditorium of the Wellcome Building, 1936, is held at L28712; of Burroughs in Moorish costume at L0028624

    Notes

    Needs conservation

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