Workman tends to a chilling tank used during penicillin manufacture at the Connaught Labs

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Workman tends to a chilling tank used during penicillin manufacture at the Connaught Labs

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Context of this record:

National Film Board of Canada fonds

Photographs and posters from the Wartime Information Board classification system

Workman tends to a chilling tank used during penicillin manufacture at the Connaught Labs
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Workman tends to a chilling tank used during penicillin manufacture at the Connaught Labs

Date:

May 1944

Reference:

RG53

Item no. (creator):

WRM 4588

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3197444

Date(s):

May 1944

Bilingual equivalent:

See French record description

Place:

Toronto, Ont.,

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material:

English

Additional name(s):

Photographer: Rowed, Harry

Additional information:

Signatures and inscriptions note:

"PENICILLIN. Penicillin inhabits growth of certain micro-organisms harmful to man, but is not itself toxic. Surface culture production employing bottles has been superceded by the large-scale deep fermentation method using sterile pipes and tanks. Broth from waste liquor of the corn industry is inoculated with penicillin spore which develops into green penicillin-producing mold. Sterility is..."

Series added entry:

WRM

Source:

Government

Former archival reference no.:

RG53

Other accession no.:

1971-271 NPC

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Credit: Harry Rowed / National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada /
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Copyright: Expired

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