M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Muscles of the bank.

Black and white reproduction of a photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley possibly to collect cinchona seeds. The photograph was exhibited in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The photograph was lent by the Bureau Tot Bevordering van Het Kinine-Gebruik [Bureau for the promotion of quinine use], Amsterdam and is listed as exhibit no. 9 in the souvenir catalogue.

20 January 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item may have been exhibited in

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.

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