BWC Cape Town premises
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Title
BWC Cape Town premises
Is Part Of
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Human Biology
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African Studies
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Medical Virology
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School of Economics
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History
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Description
"When Burroughs died of pneumonia in 1895, Wellcome became BWC’s sole owner, and the next 20 years (until the outbreak of World War I) constituted a period of massive expansion for the company (Bailey 2008: online). In 1898, the first overseas branch opened in Sydney and was followed by seven more branches – in New York, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Milan, Shanghai and Bombay – by 1912. The Cape Town branch opened in 1902, seven years after Wellcome made his first visit to the city in 1895" (Liebenberg 2021: 49 - 51).
Access Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Creator
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
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Source
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library
Resonances
Cape Town
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economy
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marketing
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Loop Street
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Walter Floyd
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Anglo-Boer War
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sanitation
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medicine chest
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hunting
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Type
Photo
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
