M0003407: Arm showing symptoms of "Doffers disease" / M0003407EB: "Sorting Wool in the Cloth Industry"

Date:
14 March 1933
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/27/93
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M0003407: Arm showing symptoms of "Doffers disease" / M0003407EB: "Sorting Wool in the Cloth Industry". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Doffers disease.

Description

Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication of an arm showing symptoms of "Doffers disease", a skin rash common among doffers who remove full bobbins of linen and cotton thread from spinning frames, with caption underneath. Right-hand side on plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, after a photograph, of a machine used to sort wool, with caption underneath.

Publication/Creation

14 March 1933

Physical description

4 photographs glass plate negative, photographic prints; range in size from 6.2 x 8.8 cm to 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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