M0000369: First page of a letter written by Florence Nightingale, 5 July 1856

Date:: 1929

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/4/82

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0000243-M0000408WT/D/1/20/1/4
        M0000369: First page of a letter written by Florence Nightingale, 5 July 1856WT/D/1/20/1/4/82

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M0000369: First page of a letter written by Florence Nightingale, 5 July 1856. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: First page of a letter written by Florence Nightingale

Description

First page of a letter written 5th July 1856 by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) British nurse and statistician, to Sir William Linton (1801-1880), British army physician. The items were purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession numbers 66741 and 68015). Related images: M0000370, M0013737, M0013738

Publication/Creation

1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.5482/1-23

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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