A man with plague lying on a rattan bed, Bombay.

Date:: [approximately 1897]

Reference:: 539279i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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The Fallaize Collection.
- Plague, India.
  - A man with plague lying on a rattan bed, Bombay.539279i

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced July 2022: An Indian man, a victim of plague in Bombay, lying on a rattan bed in the sunshine. Photograph, ca.1897.

Description

India suffered an epidemic of plague in 1896-7. This photograph shows only the patient's lower limbs, illustrating the swelling in his groin

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1897]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 539279i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.