M0003204: Interior of a cutting shop / M0003204EB: Four people working in a hand file-cutting workshop

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Interior of cutting shop, bad ventilation

Left-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of the interior of a cutting shop, with descriptive text suggesting the image demonstrates poor ventilation practice. Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph, of three men and one woman working in a hand file-cutting workshop with descriptive text underneath. 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 on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.