M0003207: Lighting and desks in inspection room of large printing works / M0003207EB: Three women working on adjustable chairs

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lighting in room in large printing works; adjustable seats

Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph, of the interior of the inspection room, showing lighting and adjustable desks, in a large printing works. Left-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of three women working on adjustable chairs. Glass plate made for Sir George Newman (1870-1948), English public health physician and first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England on the topic of 'Health and Hygiene in the Factory and Workshop'. These images have been reproduced from Hope, E.W., Industrial hygiene and medicine; London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1923.

02 November 1932

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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