M0001692: Photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry

Date:: 16 March 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/15/86

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001603-M0001706WT/D/1/20/1/15
        M0001692: Photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistryWT/D/1/20/1/15/86

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M0001692: Photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Anaesthetic, triptique, episodes in the life of Horace Wells.

Description

Black and white reproduction of a photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry.

Publication/Creation

16 March 1931

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

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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