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Transcribe Wellcome
  • Introduction
  • Terminology and language
  • RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
    • Documentation Systems
      • Museum Accession Numbers
      • Old Registration System
      • New Registration System
      • Library Accessions
      • Library Shelfmarks
      • Paintings
      • Photographs
      • Prints and Drawings
    • Classification
      • Sections
      • Cultures
      • Materials
      • Collections Abbreviations
    • People
      • Alphabetical list of staff
        • Lander, Kathleen
        • Amoruso, Arthur
        • Barber-Lomax, John Walker
        • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert
        • Bishop, W.J.
        • Borer, Mary Cathcart
        • Boscawen, William St Chad
        • Bourne, Henry
        • Britchford, W.J.
        • Brookes, Mr
        • Burgess, Renate
        • Burstein, S. Rosa
        • Carline, George R.
        • Chadburn, Mr
        • Chatterjee, B.
        • Chiang Yee
        • Clarke, Edwin
        • Comins, Mr
        • Cooper-Reade, J.B.
        • Cox, R.M.
        • Crellin, John K.
        • Dance, Enid
        • Daukes, S.H.
        • Davis, Walter
        • Dean, A.L.
        • Duncum (Pyecraft), Barbara
        • Dykes, R.
        • Earnshaw, C.A.
        • Freeman, E.J.
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Gardner, S.B.
        • Gaskell, E.
        • Gaster, Theodor
        • Georgievsky, Catherine
        • Gibson, Miss
        • Haggis, Alec W.J.
        • Hewitt, Charles
        • Hipkins, G.J.
        • Holz, Dorothy
        • Hooper, D.
        • Huck, T.W.
        • Johnston-Saint, Peter (Captain)
        • Jones, Miss
        • Keighley, Mr
        • Kemp, P.M.
        • Kidd, R.H.
        • Lacaille, A. Donald
        • Lane, Tom
        • Lillico, Joan
        • Malcolm, Louis William Gordon
        • Mall, Paira
        • Marmoy, Charles
        • Michieli, John
        • Moorat, Samuel Arthur Joseph
        • Port, Harry
        • Powell, H.J.
        • Poynter, F.N.L.
        • Prideaux, W.R.B.
        • Rainsford-Hannay, Margaret
        • Raymont (Braunholtz), Joan
        • Rowbottom, Margaret
        • Sambon, Louis Westenra
        • Samson, Otto William
        • Shawe, J.
        • Shirreff, Frances Gordon
        • Sinel, Joseph William
        • Sizer, C.A.
        • Smith, Miss
        • Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander
        • Stow, Harry
        • Swinstead, A.E.H.
        • Thompson, Charles John Samuel
        • Underwood, Edwin Ashworth
        • Uribe, Julio (Major)
        • Webb, Mr
        • Welch
        • Wilkes, Mr
        • Winder, Marianne
      • Collecting Agents
        • Blackman, Winifred Susan
        • Bolinder, Gustav
        • Church Missionary Society
        • Jeffreys, Mervyn D.W.
      • Private Collectors
        • Amherst, William Tyssen-Amherst
        • Canaan, Tawfiq
        • Debes Davies, Rachel
        • Gorga, Evangelista
        • Hewlett, William
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Iles, Isaac
        • Lovett, Edward
        • Moore-Guggisberg, Lillian Decima
    • Wellcome Places
      • Aldersgate Street
      • Beckenham
      • Bushey Hill Road
      • Crystal Palace Road
      • Dartford Works
      • Easley Mews
      • Henrietta Street
      • Marylebone High Street
      • Portman Square
      • Sans Walk
      • Stanmore
      • Stratford Mews
      • Wigmore Street
      • Willesden
    • Auction Houses
    • Wellcome Organisations
      • Burroughs Wellcome & Company (BW & Co.)
      • Epworth & Co.
      • Historical Medical Exhibition (HME)
      • Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research (WBSR)
      • Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories (WCRL)
      • Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
      • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM)
      • Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)
      • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (WMMS)
      • Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)
      • Wellcome Research Institution (WRI)
      • Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (WTRL)
    • Dispersals
      • The Ten Distributions (1950s)
      • Science Museum Departments
    • Bibliography
  • TRANSCRIPTION GUIDELINES
    • Wellcome Transcribers' Group
    • Getting Started
    • Library Registers
    • Museum Flimsy Slips
    • PHO Accession Registers
    • CC Accessions - Cabinet Cards
    • Science Museum Transit Registers
    • Museum Accession Registers
  • Contributing to Transcribe Wellcome
    • Transcribers
    • Recipient Museums & Libraries
  • About the Transcribe Wellcome dataset
    • Dispersals
  • Project Management
    • Batch checking - Flimsy slips (A sequence)
    • Batch checking - Library Accession Registers
    • Itemising batches for TW import and catalogue descriptions
    • Importing itemisation batches
    • Checking & importing visual batches
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  • Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
  • Bibljoteka Nazzjonali - Malta (National Library of Malta)
  • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
  • Bolton Museum
  • Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
  • British Museum
  • Durham University Museums
  • Egypt Centre - Swansea University
  • Fowler Museum UCLA
  • Horniman Museum
  • Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow
  • Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - University of Cambridge
  • Museum of London
  • National Museum Lagos
  • National Museums Liverpool
  • Petrie Museum - UCL
  • Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford
  • Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection (Science Museum loan)
  • Stroud District (Cowle) Museum
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum - University of Cambridge
  • Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
  • University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Wellcome Collection

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  1. About the Transcribe Wellcome dataset

Dispersals

Contents of the Transcribe Wellcome dispersals table. A prototype demonstration for a virtual piecing together of the Wellcome collections' diaspora.

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

  • Example object identified from collection online.

Bibljoteka Nazzjonali - Malta (National Library of Malta)

  • Archives of the Knights of Malta (The Order of St. John)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

  • Shabtis with Wellcome identifiers published in Watson, P. (2012) Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Birmingham Museums Trust.

  • Cuneiform tablets published in Watson, P.J. (1986) Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Birmingham City Museum, volume 1. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.

Bolton Museum

  • Example Egyptology objects

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

  • Example object identified from photograph in Bristol's collections online

British Museum

  • Example objects from the prehistory collections

  • Objects collected by Winifred Blackman in Egypt

  • Objects identified in https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection as donated by Wellcome and originating from Benin City, including objects purchased from Hugh Nevin Nevins

  • Objects collected by M.D.W. Jeffreys in sub-Saharan Africa

Durham University Museums

  • Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers are recorded in Durham University Museums' internal collections management system. Catalogue records and some digitised images are available from Discover Durham Collections, but do not include Wellcome identifiers.

Egypt Centre - Swansea University

  • Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers are recorded in the Egypt Centre Online Collection

Fowler Museum UCLA

  • Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers have been researched by staff at the Fowler Museum, including some not currently included in the Digital Collection

Horniman Museum

  • Example objects identified from photographs available in the Horniman online catalogue

Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow

  • Example objects identified from photographs available online in the Hunterian online catalogue

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - University of Cambridge

  • Example objects identified from online catalogue entries.

Museum of London

  • Example objects identified from online catalogue entries, manually checked with transfer records

National Museum Lagos

  • Example object identified from correspondence in file WA/HMM/CO/Chr/K.104

National Museums Liverpool

  • Example objects identified by museum staff at Liverpool

Petrie Museum - UCL

  • Example objects identified from photographs available in the UCL Petrie Collection Online Catalogue, including some manuscripts originally accessioned into the Wellcome library

Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford

  • Example objects, mostly collected by Winifred Blackman, identified from the Pitt Rivers Museum Database of Object Collections

Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection (Science Museum loan)

  • Science Museum object numbers between A45 and A500529 inclusive for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ (c.21,500 entries)

  • Science Museum object numbers between A600001 and A700043 inclusive for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ (c.67,000 entries)

  • Science Museum part-numbered objects (/1 and Pt1 etc.) for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk (c.5550 entries)

  • 'B' loans to the Science Museum for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk (c.900 entries)

Stroud District (Cowle) Museum

  • 21 objects (mostly casts of prehistoric material) gifted to Stroud Museum in 1982-1983.

The Fitzwilliam Museum - University of Cambridge

  • Example objects identified from the Fitzwilliam beta release collection online

Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

  • Example objects identified by staff at the Tropenmuseum

University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies

  • Example object identified by a member of teaching staff

Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Example object identified from the V&A's Explore the Collections

Wellcome Collection

  • Early printed books for which accession numbers are recorded in Wellcome's internal collections management system. Catalogue records and digitised images are available from the Wellcome catalogue online, but do not include accession numbers

  • Selected manuscripts

  • Selected paintings and photographs

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