M0001559: Cinchona plantation, Ootacamund

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cinchona plantation, Ootacamund.

Black and white photograph of the Cinchona plantation, Ootacamund, in Tamil Nadu showing plantation workers taking bark from Cinchona Offincinalis trees. The original photograph was lent by Professor A. Tschirch (of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berne) for 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, but the exhibit number has not been identified. The item is not held by Wellcome Collection.

07 January 1931

2 photographs sheet film negative, print; range from 6 x 5 cm to 7 x 6 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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.