Government Laboratories
Date
Ca.1901
Creator - Organisation
Halftones Limited, Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 216mm
width (print): 216mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior view of the Government Laboratories, Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. A male technician, with a waxed moustache, is shown standing, cleaning or lighting a burner, on a laboratory bench bearing similar gas burners.
Stamped: 'Halftones Limited. 17, Fleet Street, London E.C.'
From the papers of Thomas Thorpe. Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), British chemist served as Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory, from 1894 to 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
Stamped: 'Halftones Limited. 17, Fleet Street, London E.C.'
From the papers of Thomas Thorpe. Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), British chemist served as Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory, from 1894 to 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
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