Guide to the Records of the Wellcome Foundation (as filmed by the AJCP), 1882-1986
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Summary
- Collection number:
- M2536 - M2538
- Creator:
- Wellcome Foundation
- Extent:
- 89 items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Available for reference.
Background
- Content Summary:
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Correspondence, notes, memoranda, financial papers, minutes of meetings, cuttings and notebooks relating to the company's activities in Australia and New Zealand. Subjects include: drug trials; value and problems of conducting drug trials in Australia and New Zealand; and sales and exports. Correspondents include J.D. Spink, S.M. Burroughs, E.W. Wrigley, A.B. Hector, Capt. R.F. Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The material was filmed selectively.
- Biographical / Historical:
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The partnership of Burroughs Wellcome Co. was formed in 1880 by two American pharmacists, Silas Mainville Burroughs and Henry Solomon Wellcome. Initially they acted as agents for American companies, specialising in the new 'compressed medicines' or tablets. In 1883 they started manufacturing their own products and in 1889 the present production centre was established at Dartford, Kent. The first overseas branch was established at Melbourne in 1886.
By 1900 the product range included an extensive 'Tabloid' range of ethical medicines as well as 'Kepler' Cod liver oil and malt, hazeline Snow, Saccharin, atomisers for sprays, artificial ear drums, tea in 'tabloid' form and an assorted range of tonics and laxatives, as well as a growing range of medicine chests.
In 1895 Burroughs died and Henry Wellcome became sole proprietor. He was also interested in research and in 1894 Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories was established, followed by Wellcome Chemical research Laboratories (1896), Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research (1913), and Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (1913). In 1924 Wellcome consolidated all these separate enterprises under one private company - The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
The Company's headquarters was bombed in 1941 and many records were lost.
See also. Gilbert Macdonald. One Hundred Years Wellcome 1880-1980. In Pursuit of Excellence. Wellcome Foundation, 1980.
Access and use
- Conditions Governing Access:
- Available for Access.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the Wellcome Trust (https://wellcome.ac.uk/).
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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