M0003210: Inside view of a clothing factory / M0003210EB: "Double washing-trough with spray faucets"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Ligthing in modern clothing factory

Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph showing environmental improvements inside a clothing factory including natural lighting with use of skylights and a double washing trough with spray faucets. Left-hand side of plate: Photograph of a half tone print, after a photograph, of a double sided sink with spray taps, with caption underneath and additional text to the sides. Glass plate made for Sir George Newman (1870-1948), English public health physician and first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England on the topic of 'Health and Hygiene in the Factory and Workshop'. These images have been reproduced from Hope, E.W., Industrial hygiene and medicine; London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1923.

02 November 1932

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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