M0003211: Aerial view of cotton mills in Preston / M0003211EB: "A Typical Manufacturing Town"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Aerial view of Preston, 19th century

Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication of an aerial view of cotton mills in Preston, Lancashire, with caption. Left-hand side of plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, after a photograph, of an aerial view of Preston's factories next to a residential area, with caption 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'.

02 November 1932

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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