M0001365: Photograph of the "Prins Frederik" or the Prince Frederick, the ship which took the first consignment of cinchona plants from South America to Java in 1885

Black and white photograph of the "Prins Frederik" or the Prince Frederick, the ship which took the first consignment of cinchona plants from South America to Java in 1885. The reproduction is possibly from the original photograph lent by Professor P. Van der Wielen, Laboratorium voor Artsenijbereidkunde van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, and listed as exhibit no. 497 in 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.

22 October 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue, which this item was exhibited in

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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