M0005594: Vaccination during the 1921 smallpox epidemic, Palestine

Date:: August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/46/5

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005590-M0005690WT/D/1/20/1/46
        M0005594: Vaccination during the 1921 smallpox epidemic, PalestineWT/D/1/20/1/46/5

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M0005594: Vaccination during the 1921 smallpox epidemic, Palestine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Vaccination during the epidemic of small-pox, 1921 Palestine

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a child being vaccinated against smallpox in Al-Dawayima (or Dawaymeh), Palestine. Reproduced in The Lancet, January 1926. A copy of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10681).

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number PHO 10681

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 2021.

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