M0005853: Aboriginal Australian doctor treating a patient

Date:: 21 October 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/48/59

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005789-M0005896WT/D/1/20/1/48
        M0005853: Aboriginal Australian doctor treating a patientWT/D/1/20/1/48/59

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M0005853: Aboriginal Australian doctor treating a patient. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Doctor from one of the Australian tribes

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of an Aboriginal Australian doctor. It comes from an unknown publication, the same one as image M0005851 showing a Chaco doctor from Argentina treating a patient in a similar manner. Related images: M0005851, M0005852.

Publication/Creation

21 October 1938

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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