M0001456: Reproduction of a photograph of Cinchona trees, Java, Indonesia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cinchona trees, Java.

Black and white reproduction of a photograph of Cinchona trees, Java, Indonesia, with a person (possibly a plantation worker) in the centre of the trees. The photograph was possibly lent by Professor A. Tschirch (of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berne) for 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 has not been indetified in the souvenir catalogue.

16 December 1930

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 10.5 x 14.4 cm

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

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.