'Dartford Museum' - Prints: BW&Co Staff, Explorers

Prints of Burroughs Wellcome employees' social events; workings and interior of Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford; Burroughs Wellcome Materia Medica farm, Dartford and prints of explorers and aviators who used Burroughs Wellcome Tabloid products (eg First Aid kits, medicine chests and photographic chemicals).

1. Winners of Works Suggestion Scheme, 1905
2. Fancy Dress Dinner, WC&I. 1906
3. Luncheon Tents at 25th Anniversary Fete. 1905
4. Maypole dance at BW&Co's 25th Anniversary Fete. July 1905
6. Works staff. 1908
7. Ladies section of the canteen (multiple copies). 1946
8. Wellcome Ladies Bowls Team. 1967
9. WC&I Ladies Hockey Team. 1904-5
10. Tour of finished goods warehouse. Queens Award to Industry. July 1976
15. Clocking Out. Early 1900s
16. John Rose & Jarvo Chiesman. 1965
17. Chemical Manufacturing Dept. 1948 (2 copies)
18. General Office Staff, Dartford. 1903
19. Dartford Charter Day (BW&Co truck with chemical equipment in rear). 1933
20. Dartford Borough mace [colour, nd].
21. Dr H. A. D. Jowett (Chemist, W.C.R.L., 1896-1905)
23. 25th Anniversary Fete, WC&I (attendees walking over the bridge at Acacia Hall). 1905 [2 copies, one needs secoling].
[no number] Bridge at Acacia Hall, Dartford, c.1980 ("The grounds of the Wellcome Club at Acacia Hall, Dartford High Street, have preserved a "lung" in the heart of the town").
25. Employees at Leisure, c.1905
26. H. C. Sayer, 1909 (Writing on reverse "First secretary of the Club[?]" )
31. Mike Francis and Derek Robinson, 1988
32. Photograph of Dartford staff under Mr A. T. Hill, 1900. 2 copies. (50 individuals pictured, all named on accompanying sheet).
36. Burrough's Wellcome & Co delivery van
38. Ladies Drawing Room. WC&I, 1909. 2 copies
39. Dartford employees celebrating "Pretoria Day" (5 June 1900) at Acacia Hall. 2 copies.
40. Packing 'Tabloid' Quinine Bisulph, 1906 (6 copies)
41. Gentleman's Dining Room, WC&I, 1909 (2 copies). 9 employees pictured, all named.
42. Packing tablets at Dartford. c.1909 (2 copies, 1 reversed).
43. The last jar produced at Dartford of Hazeline Snow being pulled by Rita Masters. 2 copies
53. Kepler Cod Liver Oil Barrels at Dartford Wharf, c.1905. 3 copies
60. Assembling BW&Co crates for shipment. c.1912
62. Carpenters' workshop. c.1910
63. Halford Lorry [BW&Co delivery lorry]. 1909
64. Workshop at Dartford, c.1909. 3 copies.
65. BW&Co delivery engine.
66. Tom Herbert with evaporating pan [used during production of Kepler Malt Extract?]
67. Robert Lee with a [BW&Co] Halford lorry, 1910. 2 copies.
68. Sowing Datura Metel seeds at the Materia Medica Farm, Dartford. 1912
69. Harrowing & Drilling at the Materia Medica Farm, Dartford. 1908.
70. Hoeing Belladonna at the Materia Medica Farm, Dartford. 1912
71. Loading Belladonna at the Materia Medica Farm, Dartford. June 1909
74. Gathering Digitalis on the Materia Medica Farm, Dartford, June 1926. (18 copies, 2 sizes)
75. Gatherers with Digitalis leaves, Materia Medica Farm, Dartford, June 1926.
76. Loading produce onto motor rail train, Materia Medica Farm, Dartford, June 1926.
77. Processing Belladonna, 1921. 88/12. Mr. Wheatley-Bert featured in photograph. 79. Packaging 'Kepler' malt and oil, 1946. No. 3, 7/60.
80. Advanced Training School, 1946. No. 2, 7/55.
81. Bismuth House, Building no. 119, Wellcome Chemical Works, Sept 1928.
82. Chemical Manufacturing Department, 1946. No. 4, 7/52.
83. Control Labs, 1946. WPH/DM 1 (Prints 1). 7/49.
??. Taken by Mr Barrett at Dartford, Aug 1928.
84. CDL, taken at Works, July 1922.
86. Ampoule filling and sealing medicine, 1946. 7/76.
87. Running a 'tabloid' compressing machine, 1946. No. 7, 7/50. (3 copies, 3 sizes)
88. Control labs, 1946. No. 11, 7/48. (2 copies, 2 sizes)
89. Check weighing, 1946. WPH/DM 1 (Prints 1). No. 5, 7/46.
90. Assembling cartons, 1946. No. 18, 7/43.
91. Book-binding work in the Printing Department, 1946. No. 10, 7/47.
93. Autoclave preparation area, c1950.
94. Cholera vaccine for Libya, loaded at Dartford, 1972.
96. Tube filling, c1950. WPH/DM (Prints 1)
99. Roy Young and Leslie Davis.
101. Central Analytical Labs, 1975. McCrerie and Mansor.
103. Manufacturing Bethanidine Sulphate ('Esbatal') in the Synthetics Department of the Wellcome Chemical Works at Dartford, Feb 1966. (3 copies)
107. Bob Smith, Emetine at the Wellcome Chemical Works at Dartford, April 1968. (2 copies)
109. Peter Barclay, Emetine at the Wellcome Chemical Works at Dartford, 1970. (6 copies)
110. Quality control. (5 copies)
111. Vaccines for Romania, March 1977. (2 copies)
113. Emetine plant, July 1969. (2 copies)
130. Terra Nova off Cape Evans, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910. (5 copies)
[ ] Captain Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910, pictured on skis. Image taken by H. G. Ponting, official photographer for the expedition.
127. Shackleton's 'fartherst South', 9 January 1909, on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1908-9 (from left to right: Lieutenant Jameson Boyd Adams, Frank Wild and Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton; the photograph was taken by Dr Eric Marshall)
128. Capt. Noel developing film with 'Rytol', Mt. Everest expedition, 1922. (Crate of Burroughs Wellcome Tabloid Photographic Chemicals pictured)
132. H.M. Stanley, 1885. (2 copies)
133. Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Polar flying kit, March 1934. (2 copies)
134. Sir Alan Cobham and crew of the seaplane Valetta in 1931 following a pioneer survey flight to Lake Kivu in East Africa

. 136. Major Martin, 1924 ("US Army Round the World Flight. Major Martin bringing a 'Tabloid' First-Aid to the airplane. Seattle, 20 March 1924")

c.1885-c.1980

1 box [c.75 prints]

Includes copies of some slides of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910, WF/M/I/SL/59/1.

Also overlap with images produced for "In Pursuit of Excellence". See also MIRO: L0034060, L0041432, L0034058