IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 WA/PHO
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Photographs (Wellcome-related, 1913-1985)
Date(s): 1913-1985
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 4 boxes and 2 outsize items
Name of creator(s): Kellaway | Charles Halliley | 1889-1952 | medical scientist
Wellcome Research Institution
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories
Wellcome Museum of Medical Science
Wellcome Trust
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Many of these photographs were taken for use in publications, such as handbooks and guides.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographs and slides generated by the various Wellcome bodies. Including:
Photographs relating to Balfour's South American Expedition, 1914 and to the Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory 1918.
Photographs depicting the interior arrangement of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, and specific exhibition cases or objects.
Glass lantern slides used for lectures on the history and current work of the various departments of the Wellcome Research Institution.
Photographs mainly depicting the Museum displays and their use by visitors.
Photographs of the Floating Laboratory and its model, and an extensive series of photographs taken for the annual reports.
Two large format albums of prints of interior and exterior views; plus loose photographs including of the cornerstone laying ceremony.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as follows: WA/PHO/Wri Wellcome Research Institution, premises 1931-1944; WA/PHO/Hmm Historical Medical Museum 1913-1979; WA/PHO/Trl Tropical Research Laboratories 1907-1970; WA/PHO/Mms Museum of Medical Science c.1925-1985; WA/PHO/Kel Dr Kellaway's slides c.1947; WA/PHO/Tru Wellcome Trust 1945-1985
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
2 outsize items
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The photographs and slides have been grouped together because many of the images, for example of the buildings, have common relevance to several or all the bodies, and it is not always clear which body generated them originally. Indeed, some of them may have been produced as an exercise to illustrate the work of the Wellcome bodies as a whole, and not intended to serve one body in particular. As they had been removed, at same point, from their original archival context, their exact provenance and purpose has been lost.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
The Wellcome Medical Photograph Library holds some original and copy negatives.
Existence and location of copies:
The Iconographic Department of the Library does hold duplicates of some of these images.
Related material:
The extensive collection of photographs relating to Henry Solomon Wellcome's personal life are listed separately at WA/HSW/PH. These also include many images relating to his wider research interests, including, for example, photographs of the Wellcome Research Institution building and Wellcome Historical Medical Museum receptions.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008