Topographical Photographs (A&M) Archive and manuscript sources in the Wellcome Library
July 2014
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The archives and manuscripts collections cover a broad range of subjects dating from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. This is one of a series of thematic guides designed to assist users of the collections to identify material of particular relevance to their research. For more detailed subject searching, you can run keyword or subject searches in the Archives and Manuscripts on–line catalogue, http://archives.wellcomelibrary.org, from which material can be ordered for consultation in the Rare Materials Room. Hard copy catalogues can be found in the Library’s Rare Materials Room or by request to [email protected] .
Topographical Photographs (A&M) The images listed are mostly scenic and unrelated to medicine, including photographs, slides, negatives and photographic postcards. They are in black and white unless otherwise stated. Most of the transparencies are colour.
By country Reference
AFGHANISTAN – see also INDIA with regard to the North West Frontier.
Lillias Anna Hamilton (1858–1925) Physician: photographs of Afghanistan in 1890s, mainly Kabul and Eastern Afghanistan
PP/HAM/A.31
– Photograph album of the Peshawar Valley Field Force in the Afghan War,
1878–9, including Khyber valley/pass, Jellalabad, Kabul, Kuta–Kushta, Ali Musjid, Lundi Kotal. Includes panoramic photographs
RAMC/540
ALGERIA
Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham (1887–1983) Pathologist and
consultant in aviation medicine: photographs and postcards of Algiers, West Africa, mainly Constantine, Timgad and Biskra, c.1940–4
PP/HEW/C.6/3
AUSTRALIA
Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978), physiologist: photographs and
postcards from visit to Australia and Tasmania with her husband Sir Edward Mellanby, 1951
PP/MEL/E/5/14
Professor Ronald Hare (1899–1986) Bacteriologist: travel accounts
illustrated with photographs and postcards of Australia, 1955
PP/HAR/A.17
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of various places in Australia, 1912–16
PP/ESS/P.108
AUSTRIA
Professor Ronald Hare (1899–1986) Bacteriologist: travel accounts
illustrated with photographs and postcards of North Tyrol and Vienna, c.1929–55
PP/HAR/A.15–16
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of places in Austria particularly the Tyrol area, 1891
MS.4514
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his
voyage to Austria, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901
MS.5086
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook which includes images of places in Austria, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
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AZERBAIJAN
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: b/w postcards of Baku, Caucasus, c.1900 (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/3,4
BELGIUM
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of Ostend, 1887
MS.4511
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Belgium, 1901–4
PP/ESS/P.99
The Mytchett Collection, Staff Sergeant Sydney Tempest: postcards of World War I Flanders, c.1914–18
RAMC/801/11/3/2
– (see Appendix B of the RAMC/catalogue)
Worster Family Papers: postcards of Belgium, 1915 RAMC/979
Sergeant Leo James Porter: album of postcard photographs of destruction on Western Front, World War I, c.1914–18
RAMC/1015/5
Album of postcards of Belgium, 1923 (with regard to World War I destruction, 1914–1918)
RAMC/1043
Brigadier Hugh Glyn–Hughes: photograph album of France and Flanders
during the retreat of the British Army to Dunkirk, May 1940, and album of the Allied advance through Europe, 1944–5
RAMC/1218/2/1,9
Private Cecil Walter Joseph Branch: postcards from World War I
including Belgian towns, c.1914–18
RAMC/1552/7
BERMUDA
Sergeant George Charles Maidment: photograph album including views
of Bermuda, c.1899–1900 (main subject of the album is Boer War, 1899–1900. Bermuda photographs are at the end.)
RAMC/1011/2
BOTSWANA (formerly BECHUANALAND)
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives of Bechuanaland, including the Kalahari Desert, 1943
PP/FAK/E/2/4/2
BURMA see MYANMAR
CANADA
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including places in Canada, 1908
PP/ESS/P.102
CEYLON see SRI LANKA
CHANNEL ISLANDS
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Jersey, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
CHINA
Sir James Cantlie (1851–1926) President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: street scenes in Hong Kong, 1890s
MS.6938/58–68
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Canton, Hong Kong, Kowloon and Mahei, 1959–61
PP/FAK/E/2/3/18–22
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Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of China, 1913
PP/ESS/P.107
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: stereoscopic photographs of views in China in 1920s (exact locations not known)
PP/HRW/A.16
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (f.1907): Amoy town
seen from Kulangsu, and Patrick Manson's house in Amoy, 1873
WTI/RST/F.8/2
Sergeant Sidney James Harrington: photographs of a Chinese city
[Tientsin?] damaged by bombs, 1937
RAMC/1695/9
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): touristic shots of Hong Kong including
Repulse Bay area, early 1970s
WTI/SGB/K.5/5. K.5/9
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF (formerly ZAIRE, formerly CONGO)
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives of Congo, 1944
PP/FAK/E/2/4/3
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): some non–clinical photographs of, showing
Yakusu and the surrounding areas where he worked as a medical missionary and leprologist 1930s–50s
WTI/SGB/K.5/10, K.5/18
CYPRUS
Major General Sir Percy Tomlinson: postcard photograph of Kyrenia, c.1940s
RAMC408/5/4
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of
photographs including Cyprus, 1942–4
RAMC/594
CZECH REPUBLIC
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals including pasted–in postcards and photographs of Marienbad (unlabelled), 1886
MS.4510
DENMARK
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Denmark, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Private Cecil Walter Joseph Branch: postcards of Copenhagen, 1919 RAMC/1552/7
EGYPT
Sir Albert (Ruskin) Cook (1870–1951) and Lady (Katherine) Cook (1863–1938) Medical missionaries: some photographs of Suez, c.1903
PP/COO/K.3
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Port Said and Cairo, 1961
PP/FAK/E/2/3/21, E/2/3/53
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his
voyage to Egypt, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901–2
MS.5087
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of photographs including Alexandria, Cairo, Cairo Zoo, Geneifa, Saqqara and Gesira, 1942–4
RAMC/594
Photograph album of the RAMC/at work and play in Cairo, including views
and pyramids, [1930s]
RAMC/719
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Captain W E H Bull, 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: albums of photographs of Egypt, town, archaeological remains, local people, 1914–19
RAMC/791/1–3
Private A Horrocks, 1/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance, RAMC/(Territorial Force): photographs and postcards of Alexandria,
c.1914–18
RAMC/1004
Sergeant Leo James Porter: photograph album of Egypt, 1920s RAMC/1015/9
Panoramic photograph of the Suez Canal and city [Port Said?] after occupation, 1956
RAMC/1135
Lieutenant John Frederick Ford: photo of Ford at Pyramids, Giza, 1915 RAMC/1224/2
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes views of Upper Nile, Abu Simbal, Karnac (Sphynx), Thebes, Suez Canal and Assuan
RAMC/1242
– Photograph album including Egypt, 1917–18 RAMC/1259/3
– Two albums of photographs of Egypt, 1916–19 and 1946–7, including Cairo, Giza (pyramids), Saqqara, Faiyum Oasis and Assuan
RAMC/1455
– Snapshots of Egypt during World War I, c.1917 RAMC/1480/1
Private Austin Tucker: photographs and postcards of Egypt, c.1916 RAMC/1654/7–8
– Photographs of Cairo during World War I, c.1916 RAMC/1862
– Album of postcard photographs of Port Said and Ismailia, 1920s RAMC/1876
Private William Forsyth: postcard photographs of Cairo, Alexandria and other places in Egypt (including snapshots), and booklet of views of Alexandria, 1915–c.1919
RAMC/1910/6–8,14
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: snapshots of places in Egypt,
1936
RAMC/1989/7
Private Edward George Chessun, No 33 Company RAMC: album of
family photographs and scenes in Egypt, 1924–7
RAMC/2085
Alexander Kincaid Handyside RAMC (T) 1/3 Lowland Field Ambulance:
photographs taken during service in Egypt, c. 1916–9
MS.7912
ENGLAND
Sir Albert (Ruskin) Cook (1870–1951) and Lady (Katherine) Cook (1863–1938) Medical missionaries: photographs of Woolacombe Bay, 1912
PP/COO/K.6
Sir (William) Allen Daley (1887–1969) Medical Officer of Health:
photographs of Bridgemont, Banbury and Chester, 1956
PP/AWD/P.4
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of various places including the Midlands, Wokingham and Warwick, mainly 1960–3
PP/FAK/ E/2/3/23–30, 54, E/2/4/79–106
Louisa Martindale (1872–1966): travel journals containing postcards of Brockenhurst, Ringwood, New Forest, and Derwentwater, Lake District, 1912–20
MS.3471, MS.3474
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, (1862–1944) Physician: photograph album
of Lancrigg, Grasmere, Lake District, 1888–9
MS.6123
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Charles Brodie Sewell MD (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of places in Cornwall and Devon including Bude, Tintagel, Newquay, Bedruthen Steps, Vale of Lanhern, Mawgan Woods, St Ives, Gurnards Head, Penzance, Logan Rock in Porthkernon Cove, Lands End, St Michael's Mount, Mullion Cove, Kynance and Lizard, Winsteen Maiden's Circle at Bollert, Falmouth, River Fal, Plymouth, Morville Rocks River Tamar and Ivybridge, plus Glastonbury and Wells, 1888
MS.4512
– Chichester and the Isle of Wight, 1892 MS.4515
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of Physiology: photograph albums of Yorkshire, Lake District, Devon, Brixham, Upper Sheringham, Marly Knowe, Stonehaven, Winchester, Fortrose, Shropshire and Wye, 1901–27
PP/ESS/P.99–111
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes photographs and postcards of many places in England, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: snapshots of England during World War
I, c.1914–18
RAMC/738
Alfred Percy Hatt, Regimental Sergeant Major: coloured postcards of
Sheffield, c.1914
RAMC/1012/3,4,6
Private William Forsyth: postcard photograph of St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire, c.1916
RAMC/1910/2
Wellcome Archive, Photographs: glass slides of Henry Wellcome's
science research laboratory sites and the surrounding areas, including Langley Court, Beckenham; Euston Road; Brockwell Hall; Snow Hill; Dartford, 1890s–1940s
WA/PHO/Kel
Wellcome Archive, Personal Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome:
photographs of Henry Wellcome on visits and travels, including parts of Kent, 1905
WA/HSW/PH/C
ETHIOPIA
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: transparencies of various places including Addis Ababa, 1965
PP/FAK/E/2/3/40, 47
FRANCE
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of Annecy, French Alps, 1887
MS.4511
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums with views of various places, including Cassis, South of France, Vannes, 1901–27
PP/ESS/P.99,109–111
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook which includes images of places in France, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Major General Robert Eric Barnsley: albums of photographs of Western
Front France, 1915
RAMC/524/2
Lieutenant Colonel John P Silver: aerial photographs of Western Front
trenches, postcards and photographs of Western Front towns, mainly Armentières, 1914–17
RAMC/542
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: snapshots of France and postcards of
St Nazaire, Le Havre and Rouen, during World War I, c.1914–18
RAMC/738
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The Mytchett Collection: Staff Sergeant Sydney Tempest: postcards of
World War I France, mainly Hazebrouck, Lille and Aire–sur–la–Lys, c.1914–18
RAMC/801/11/3/2
Sergeant Leo James Porter: album of postcard photographs of destruction on the Western Front, and of Marseilles, World War I, c.1914–18
RAMC/1015/5
– Album of postcards of France, 1914 RAMC/1043
Brigadier Hugh Glyn–Hughes: photograph album of France and Flanders
during the retreat of the British Army to Dunkirk, May 1940, and album of the Allied advance through Europe, 1944–5
RAMC/1218/2/1,9
– Photograph albums of Western Front France, c.1914–18 RAMC/1259/1–2
Private Cecil Walter Joseph Branch: postcards from World War I, of Le Havre, Rouen, Mazingarbe–les–Brebis, Boulogne and other French towns; Vermelles, Albert and Loos in ruins, c.1914–18
RAMC/1552/7
Acting Lance Sergeant George Alfred Charles Perry: postcard
photographs of Lille damaged by bombs, c.1916
RAMC/1857
GAMBIA
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: transparencies of Gambia, 1963
PP/FAK/E/2/3/36–38
GEORGIA
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: b/w photographs and b/w and colour postcards of Tbilisi; Batumi; landscape, villages and mountains (including Mount Kazbek) surrounding the Georgian Military Highway, Caucasus (the GMH runs from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia, Russia); Sukhumi, and Gagry, c.1890s–1960s (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/2–4
GERMANY
Charles Brodie Sewell MD (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals including pasted–in postcards and photographs of places in Germany (unlabelled), 1886
MS.4510
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Germany, 1907
PP/ESS/P.101
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Germany, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Brigadier Hugh Glyn–Hughes: album of the Allied advance through
Europe, 1944–5
RAMC/1218/2/9
Private Cecil Walter Joseph Branch: postcards of Stettin from World War I, 1918
RAMC/1552/7
GIBRALTAR
Private William Bidwell: photograph album of Gibraltar, 1920s RAMC/1386
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: postcards of Gibraltar, 1940s
RAMC/1989/8
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GREECE
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Greece, Crete and Corfu, c.1955–1965; transparencies of Macedonia, 1957
PP/FAK/E/2/3/36–38, 40–41, 50–52; PP/FAK /E/2/3/13
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: postcards of Athens, c.1920s (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/5
Dorothy Minnie Newhall (1884–1975) British nurse, Serbian Army and
Relief Fund, 1915–1919: album of photographs "of Corfu, Mikra, Salonika, and Sorovich and Monastir during 1916 & 1917"
GC/165/3
Major General Robert Eric Barnsely: albums of photographs of Salonika
(Balkan Campaign), 1915–16
RAMC/524/2
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert St Maur Carter: photograph album including Crete, 1906–7
RAMC/793/4
Worster Family Papers: postcards of Salonika – mainly the fire of Aug
1917
RAMC/979
– Photograph album including Katerini, near Salonika, 1916–17 RAMC/1259/3
HUNGARY
Donald Hunter (1898–1979) Physician: b/w photographs, mainly Budapest, 1948
PP/HUN/D.2/6
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: postcards of Budapest, c.1920s (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/5
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his
voyage to Hungary, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901
MS.5086
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Hungary, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
INDIA see also AFGHANISTAN with regard to the North West Frontier
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of many places including Ajanta, Agra, Assam, Benares, Bombay, Darjeeling, Delhi, Fatipur, Gorampana, Gasceranga, Jorhat, Kalimpong, Kanchenjuga, Kashmir, Khasi, Kutmimar, Madras, Nagas, Silchar, Todas and Vellore, 1955–6
PP/FAK/E.2
Sir Robert McCarrison (1878–1960) Nutrition expert, Indian Medical
Service: album of b/w photographs of Coonoor, Tamilnadu, 1920s–30s
GC/205/C.1
Arthur Martin Leake: prints and negatives of India, 1930s RAMC/267
Colonel Sir William Donovan: albums of photographs including India, c.1896–1915
RAMC/523/10
Major General Robert Eric Barnsley: albums of photographs of India
including Mallapurum, Nowshera, Akora, Rawalpindi, Gharial, 1925–7
RAMC/524/2
Lieutenant Power: photograph album of a route march from Deesa to
Poona, c.1903, and some postcards of Bombay
RAMC/723
Brigadier F M Lipscomb: contact prints and photographs including
Bahadur Khel and Asad Khel, [1930s]
RAMC/776/5
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– Photographs taken during Khyber and Tirah campaigns, North West Frontier, India, [late 19th century]
RAMC/1118
Daniel Litton Harding: photograph album including Secunderabad, Chota Moul Ali, Hyderabad, and the railway line between Mettapolium and Coonoor, c.1901–8
RAMC/1206
Edward Louis McSheehy: photograph album, including general views of Madras, Ootacamund and Coonoor, c.1858/1860s
RAMC/1273/6
Private J W Cecil Spencer: photographs of Ranikhit and Lucknow, 1920s RAMC/1426/2
Private George Yates: postcards of Bombay, c.1916 RAMC/1444/8
Lieutenant Colonel John George Eric Vachell: photographs and negatives of Kashmir, Khyber Pass and Delhi, 1926–8
RAMC/1471/2
Major A H Safford: photographs of Calcutta and few of Barrackpore,
c.1901
RAMC/1566
Private G E Sissons, RAMC/Dental Staff: photograph album of India,
mainly Lucknow, Bombay, Jalapahar and Calcutta, 1917
RAMC/1600
– Album of postcard photographs of Lucknow, Ambala, Kasouli and Ranikhet, 1920s
RAMC/1876
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: snapshots of places in India, 1933–5
RAMC/1989/6
– Photograph album of scenes and people of Srinagar and the Bringhi River, Kashmir, 1943–4
RAMC/2070
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): Juggernaut and other temples, 1960s–70s WTI/SGB/K.5/9
IRAQ
Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran (1882–1977) Physician: b/w
photographs of visit to Iraq, mainly official engagements in Baghdad but also archaeological sites and ancient monuments including Babylon and Ctesiphon Arch, 1948
PP/CMW/G.2/5/3–4
Wathen Ernest Waller, (d.1958) Surgeon–Captain: b/w postcards of Iraq in
an account of his service during, World War I, 1914–18, including Basrah, Baghdad, Kurna, villages on Tigris river (Amara, Ali–Gharbi), and ancient monuments and archaeological sites such as Babylon, arch of Ctesiphon, Kut–el–Amara, Ezra's tomb
GC/93/2
Brigadier F M Lipscomb: negatives including views in a packet marked
"Mesopotamia", c.1917
RAMC/776/3
Private George Yates: postcards and snapshots of Basrah, c.1916 RAMC/1444/8
– Photograph album of service in Iraq during World War I, c.1914–18 RAMC/2082
IRELAND see also NORTHERN IRELAND
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of many places in Ireland, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: large prints of Dublin, postcards of Ulster and Dublin (Easter Rising 1916), 1900–16
RAMC/738
Daniel Litton Harding: photographs of Killarney, c.1901–8
RAMC/1206
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ISRAEL
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of photographs including Palestine and Jerusalem, 1942–4
RAMC/594
Captain W E H Bull, 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: albums of photographs of Jerusalem, town, archaeological remains, local people, 1914–19
RAMC/791/1–3
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: snapshots of places in
Jerusalem, 1936
RAMC/1989/7
– Photograph album including Palestine, 1917–18 RAMC/1259/3
– Two albums of photographs of Palestine, 1916–19 and 1946–7, including Haifa, Jerusalem, Betheny, Gethsemeny and Jaffa
RAMC/1455
– Snapshots of Palestine during World War I, c.1917 RAMC/1480/1
Wellcome Archive, Personal Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome:
Lachish/Tel El Duweir – photographs of the archaeological excavation site and view, 1930s–40s
WA/HSW/AR/Lac/E
Alexander Kincaid Handyside RAMC (T) 1/3 Lowland Field Ambulance:
photographs taken during service in Palestine, c. 1916–9
MS.7912
Ismond Rosen: photographs of Israel, c. 1980s, some of them used in his exhibition 'The Sinai As Inspiration'
PP/ROS/L/4, M/5
ITALY
Sir Albert (Ruskin) Cook (1870–1951) and Lady (Katherine) Cook (1863–1938) Medical missionaries: photographs of Pompeii, c.1903
PP/COO/K.3
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals including pasted–in postcards and photographs of the Italian Alps, Alpine Lakes, Southern Tyrol and the Dolomites, particularly Bellagio, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Trento, Toblach and Cortina, 1885–7 – [mostly in MS.4511]
MS.4509, MS.4511
– Lake Lugano (Lake in Italy and Switzerland), 1891 MS.4514
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Italy, Pompeii, Rapallo and Portofino, 1907–16
PP/ESS/P.101,103,107,108
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) Paediatrician and nutritionist:
photographs of Italy including Sicily and Sardinia, 1949
PP/CDW/M.9–10
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his voyages to Italy, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901–5
MS.5086–88
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Italy, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Sergeant Leo James Porter: postcard photographs of Italy, World War I,
c.1914–18
RAMC/1015/5
Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Harold Lerman: photographs of Santa
Teresa di Rivam, Sicily 1943, during embarkation for allied landing in mainland Italy
RAMC/1108/16
Lieutenant John Frederick Ford: photograph of Ford and another climbing Vesuvius, Naples, 1944
RAMC/1224/7
Private William Forsyth: postcard photographs of Italy, c.1919
RAMC/1910/15
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JAMAICA
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: large prints of Jamaica, c.1900–12 RAMC/738
JAPAN
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of various places in Japan, 1912–16
PP/ESS/P.107–108
JORDAN
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of photographs including the region known as Trans–Jordania, 1942–4
RAMC/594
KENYA
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Kenya Gwashinyero Reserve, plus Nairobi and Mombasa, 1950s–70s
PP/FAK/E/2/3/28, 31–35, 45, 47–50, E/2/4/7–8, E/2/4/43-73, 74–78
KOREA
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): touristic shots showing Royal Tombs, early
1970s
WTI/SGB /K.5/5, 9
LEBANON
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of
photographs including Beirut, Baalbeck, Tripoli, 1942–4
RAMC/594
– Two albums of photographs of the Middle East, including Beirut, c.1916–46
RAMC/1455
MADAGASCAR
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Madagascar, 1960s
PP/FAK/E/2/3/44, E/2/4/41-42
MALAYSIA
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: transparencies of Penang, 1964
PP/FAK/E/2/3/39
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Malacca and Penang, 1913–16
PP/ESS/P.107–108
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) Paediatrician and nutritionist:
photographs of Malaysia, c.1946–8
PP/CDW/M.7
Lieutenant Colonel John George Eric Vachell: postcard of Cameron Highlands, Malaysia, 1920s
RAMC/1471/2
Captain William Leslie Kennett: photographs of scenes in Malaya, 1950s RAMC/1985/11
MALTA
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: photograph
albums including Gozo, 1942–4
RAMC/594
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert St Maur Carter: photograph album including Malta, 1906–7
RAMC/793/4
[Private] Percy Roberts: photograph album including Malta, 1915 RAMC/1081/8
Private William Forsyth: postcard photographs of Malta, c.1919 RAMC/1910/15
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes views of Malta, [c.1884–9] RAMC/1242
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MAURITIUS
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Mauritius, 1965
PP/FAK/E/2/3/42–43, E/2/4/41–42
MOZAMBIQUE
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Lorenco Marquis (now Maputo), 1955
PP/FAK/E/2/3/6, E/2/4/1, 11–12
MYANMAR (formerly BURMA)
Lieutenant Colonel F H M Burton: photographs of Burma, 1885–7 RAMC/522
Brigadier C C Foss, Commander, Burma (1) District and Lieutenant Colonel A G Wells
RAMC
– Photograph album for inspection tour of Southern Line of Communication by the Burma Boundary Commission, 1936
RAMC/721
William F J M THOM: photographs of DDT Airspray, Kaban Valley – Burma, 1944
PP/WTH/B.1
NEPAL
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): some scenes in Nepal including national
park and temples near Kathmandu, Anandaban Hospital south of Kathmandu, 1960s–70s
WTI/SGB/K.5/12
NETHERLANDS
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of Physiology: photograph albums including views of various places in Holland, 1911
PP/ESS/P.104
Brigadier Hugh Glyn–Hughes: album of the Allied advance through
Europe, 1944–5
RAMC/1218/2/9
NEW ZEALAND
Daniel Litton Harding: photograph album including Wellington, c.1901–8 RAMC/1206
Capt George Blair: some photographs in and around Christchurch, 1945, where he was convalescing after being a POW of the Japanese
PP/GBL/A.4/2
Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978), physiologist: photographs and
postcards from visit to New Zealand with her husband Sir Edward Mellanby, 1951
PP/MEL/E/5/14
NIGERIA
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): slides showing Uzuakoli local area, socio–cultural and natural history subjects, early 1960s
WTI/SGB /K.5
Leonard Bruce-Chwatt (1907-1989): photographs and slides taken during his years as a malariologist in Nigeria, 1940s–50s (also slides and photographs of other places visited as a WHO consultant, 1950s–70s)
WTI/LBC/H
NORTHERN IRELAND see also IRELAND
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of Belfast and County Antrim including Antrim coast, Glenarm Bay, Cushendall and the Giant's Causeway, 1890
MS.4513
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NORWAY
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals including pasted–in postcards and photographs of fjords area in Norway, including Hardanger, Laatefossen, Bergen, Gejrangerfjord, Romsdalfjord, Romsdalen, Romsdalhorn, and Molde, 1888
MS.4512
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook which includes images of places in Norway, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
PAKISTAN see INDIA and AFGHANISTAN (with regard to the North West Frontier)
PALESTINE see ISRAEL
PHILIPPINES
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of various places in Phillipines, 1912–16
PP/ESS/P.108
POLAND
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Poland, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
PORTUGAL
Dennis Gascoigne Lillie (1888–1963) Biologist: postcards of Madeira,
1910
MS.5254
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: large prints of Madeira, c.1900–12 RAMC/738
Daniel Litton Harding: photograph album including Madeira RAMC/1206
Wellcome Archive, Personal Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome:
photographs of Henry Wellcome on visits and travels, including Lisbon and Coimbra, 1906–8
WA/HSW/PH/C
RHODESIA see ZIMBABWE
ROMANIA
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his voyage to Romania, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901
MS.5086
RUSSIA
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: b/w photographs and b/w and colour postcards of St Petersburg (Lenningrad), including the Winter Palace/Hermitage, Kazan Cathedral, St Isaacs Cathedral, Monument of Peter the Great; Moscow, including the Kremlin; Maikop; Novorossiisk; landscape, villages and mountains surrounding the Georgian Military Highway, Caucasus, including the Redantsky Valley (the GMH runs from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia, Russia); Vladikavkaz; Khosta, c.1890s–1960s (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/2–4
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Russia, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
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SCOTLAND
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: transparencies of various places on tour of Scotland, 1960
PP/FAK/E/2/3/25
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including pasted–in postcards and photographs of Edinburgh, Pitlochry and Ben Vracky, Killiecrankie, Loch Tummel, Glen Tilt, Shiehallion Mountain, Kenmore, Loch Tay and Killin, Oban and Sound of Mull, Ardgower Mountains, Glencoe, Dalmally, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Restal in Glencroe, Trossachs, Bridge of Forth, Aberfoyle, and Loch Ard, 1890
MS.4513
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of North Berwick and Fortrose, 1901–21
PP/ESS/P.99,103,109
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Scotland, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
SEYCHELLES
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives of Seychelles, 1959–60
PP/FAK
SIERRA LEONE
Corporal C Chamberlain: photograph album of Sierra Leone and
elsewhere in West Africa, c.1900s
RAMC/700
SINGAPORE
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: transparencies of Singapore, 1964
PP/FAK/E/2/3/39
Professor Ronald Hare (1899–1986) Bacteriologist: travel accounts
illustrated with photographs and postcards of Singapore, 1955
PP/HAR/A.17
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Singapore, 1913–16
PP/ESS/P.107–108
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) Paediatrician and nutritionist: photographs of Singapore, c.1946–8
PP/CDW/M.7
SOUTH AFRICA
Robina Scott Addis (1900–1986) Psychiatric social worker: postcards and
colour photographs of Cape Point and Cape Town, 1976
PP/ADD/A.12
John Fulton Barr (1868–1954): Photographs taken during service in Boer
War, c. 1900–1
PP/JFB/C.1
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives of various places in South Africa, including Johannesburg, 1949–52
PP/FAK/E/2/4/6, E/2/4/10
Dennis Gascoigne Lillie (1888–1963) Biologist: postcards of South Africa,
1910
MS.5254
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, (1862–1944) Physician: photograph album
of South Africa during the Boer War, including general views of scenery, 1900–1
MS.6124
Staff Sergeant J H Gibbons: photographs, including Bloemfontein, 1900–1 RAMC/438/5
Colonel Sir William Donovan: albums of photographs of South Africa, c.1896–1915
RAMC/523/10
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Major David Bruce: two albums of photographs of Ubombo, Zululand,
1894–1986
RAMC/596
Sergeant Ben Hannan, 32 Stationary Hospital, Klerksdorp: photograph album showing scenes and people during the Boer War, 1899–1902
RAMC/724
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: photographs of South Africa during
Boer War, including Bloemfontein, 1900–1
RAMC/738
The Mytchett Collection: glass lantern slides of scenes from the Boer War,
South Africa, 1899–1902
RAMC/801/12
Sergeant George Charles Maidment: photograph album of Boer War,
1899–1900, including views of Ladysmith, Durban
RAMC/1011/2
Daniel Litton Harding: photograph album of South Africa, 1901–8, including Deelfontein, Johannesberg, Spionkop and Pretoria
RAMC/1206
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes views of Zululand, [c.1890s] RAMC/1242
Colonel H M Morton: photograph album of Boer War battlefields, notably
Tugela (Thukela) Heights including Colenso, Monte Christo Hill, Spion Kop, Mount Alice, etc, 1900–1
RAMC/1281/6
Sergeant John Clinton Dewhurst: photograph album mainly South Africa,
1907–9
RAMC/1304/8
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: postcard photographs of Cape Town, 1940s
RAMC/1989/12
– Grocott and Sherry's Souvenir [photograph album] of Johannesburg, c.1898
RAMC/2069
SPAIN
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: transparencies of various places in Spain, 1963
PP/FAK/E/2/3/27
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook containing photographs and postcards of places in Spain, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Private William Bidwell: photograph album of Malaga and La Linea, 1920s RAMC/1386
Wellcome Archive, Personal Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome:
photographs of Henry Wellcome on visits and travels, including Spain, 1908–10
WA/HSW/PH/C
SRI LANKA (formerly CEYLON)
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Ceylon, 1955–6
PP/FAK/E/2/3/3–5, E/2/4/9
Major Edwin Ashley: photographs of Ceylon, 1927 RAMC/1724
SUDAN
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Port Sudan and Khartoum, c.1950s/1960s
PP/FAK/E/2/3/27, 39, 47, E/2/4/28–33
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of
photographs including Sudan, 1942–4
RAMC/594
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes views of Sudan
RAMC1242
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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome personal papers: Jebel Moya – retouched
photographs of the archaeological excavation sites and the surrounding area, c.1915
WA/HSW/AR/Jeb/29
Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratory: photographs taken for annual reports of the TRL, Sudan, including some topographical photographs, 1909–18
WA/PHO/Trl/B.1–4
SWITZERLAND
Charles Brodie Sewell (1817–1900) Physician: Sewell's travel journals
including stuck–in postcards and photographs of Montreux, and landscape around the Gotthardbahn (railway), 1885
MS.4509
– Engelberg, Swiss Alps and other places (unlabelled), 1886 MS.4510
– Geneva, Zurich, Chur, Davos–Platz, St Moritz, Maloja, Morcote, Swiss Alps, 1887
MS.4511
– Lake Lugano (Lake in Switzerland and Italy), 1891 MS.4514
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of
Physiology: photograph albums including views of Switzerland, 1907
PP/ESS/P.101
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which contains images of places in Switzerland, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
SYRIA
Brigadier Sidney Smith Consultant in tropical diseases: albums of
photographs including Damascus and Aleppo, 1942–4
RAMC/594
– Two albums of photographs including Damascus, 1916–19 and 1946–7 RAMC/1455
TAIWAN
Stanley Browne (1907–1986): slides showing the Happy Mount Leprosy
Colony in Taipei and surrounding area including local church and street scenes
WTI/SGB/K.5/2, 5, 15
TANZANIA (formerly ZANZIBAR and TANGANYIKA)
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives and transparencies of Zanzibar, 1952
PP/FAK/E/2/3/1, E/2/4/11–12
Regimental Sergeant Major John A Cox: snapshots of people and places in Zanzibar, 1941
RAMC/1989/9
THAILAND
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: transparencies of Bangkok, 1961
PP/FAK/E/2/3/22
TIBET
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives of Tibet, 1955
PP/FAK/E/2/4/14–27
TURKEY
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: negatives of Turkey, 1953–4
PP/FAK/E/2/4/8
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: postcards of Istanbul, c.1920s (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/5
Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski (1844–1923) Physician: journal of his MS.5086
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voyage to Turkey, containing photographs and picture postcards, 1901
Sir Matthew Fell RAF Medical Service: photographs of Constantinople,
c.1922–3
RAMC/364
Major General Robert Eric Barnsley: albums of photographs of Constantinople (Balkan Campaign), 1915–20
RAMC/524/2
Lieutenant Colonel G J S Archer: postcards and photographs of Dardanelles Campaign (Gallipoli), 1915
RAMC/738
Worster Family Papers: postcards of Constantinople, 1917 RAMC/979
[Private] Percy Roberts: photograph album including Gallipoli, 1915 RAMC/1081/8
Alexander Kincaid Handyside RAMC (T) 1/3 Lowland Field Ambulance: photographs taken at Gallipoli, c. 1916
MS.7912
UGANDA
Sir Albert (Ruskin) Cook (1870–1951) and Lady (Katherine) Cook (1863–1938) Medical missionaries in Uganda: albums of b/w photographs of Uganda, 1896–1934
PP/COO/K
Philip Rainsford Evans (1910–1990): photographs taken during his visits,
1950s–70s, in connection with the establishment of a Department of Paediatrics at Makerere University College, Kampala
PP/PRE/C.5
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and nutrition researchers: negatives of Kampala, c.1955
PP/FAK/E/2/4/13
Lieutenant Colonel Albert Ernest Hamerton (1873–1959) Pathologist:
photograph album taken by Hamerton during Sleeping Sickness Commission investigations in Uganda, 1908–11, including landscapes
GC/18/2
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes views of Uganda, Lake
Victoria, [c.1903]
RAMC/1242
UKRAINE
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) physiologist and medical researcher and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978) nutritional and dental scientist: b/w and colour postcards of Balaklava, Sochi, Livadiia, Chufut Cliffs, Yalta, Baidarsk, Alusha, Alupka and Sevastopol in the Crimea; Odessa; Lvov, c.1900–65 (in the papers of Lady Mellanby)
PP/MEL/E.5/2,3
USA
Henry Foy (1900–1991) and Athena Kondi (?–1994) Haematologists and
nutrition researchers: transparencies of various places, 1968
PP/FAK/E/2/3/46
Donald Hunter (1898–1979) Physician: aerial and landscape photographs
of Bonneville Dam, Portland, Oregon and Leonard Mine, Butte, Montana; b/w postcards of New York City – Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, skyline, 1945–6
PP/HUN/D.2/2–3
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935) Professor of Physiology: photograph albums with views of various places in USA, including Yellowstone Park and Hawaii, 1908–16
PP/ESS/P.102, 106–108
Wellcome Archive, Personal Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome:
photographs of Henry Wellcome on visits and travels, including Maine, New Metlakahtla (Alaska), Minnesota, Almond Wisconsin and California, 1880s–1935
WA/HSW/PH/B–D
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VIETNAM
Philip Rainsford Evans (1910–1990) and Barbara Evans (1909–1995): numerous b/w snapshots taken while they were with the British Paediatric Team in Saigon, 1960s
PP/PRE/E.4
WALES
Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) Pioneer of birth control: large scrapbook
which includes images of places in Wales, 1920s–30s (includes place index at front)
PP/HRW/A.10
Colonel Sir William Donovan: albums of photographs including Wales,
c.1896–1915
RAMC/523/10
YEMEN
Sir David Bruce's Lantern Slides: includes photographs of Aden RAMC/1242
YUGOSLAVIA, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF (THE REPUBLIC OF MONTENEGRO AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA)
Arthur Martin Leake: prints and negatives of Montenegro (during Balkan
war), 1912
RAMC/101
ZAIRE see CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
ZIMBABWE (formerly RHODESIA)
Percy George Shute (1894–1977) Malariologist: photographs of mosquito
breeding places in Northern Rhodesia, including views of landscape, [c.1930s]
WTI/PGS/6
Colonel Sir William Donovan: albums of photographs including Victoria Falls, c.1896–1915
RAMC/523/10