Chemist Collection

Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames (engraving)
6034701 Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames)

CURIE (1867-1934)
MARIE CURIE Physical Chemist In her laboratory

Mass spectrometer, 1954
Mass spectrometer. Researchers adjusting the controls of a mass spectrometer. This is an all-metal demountable mass spectrometer

England / Ulverston
The town centre at Ulverston, Cumbria, a market town a few miles south of the English Lake District

Chemist Shop at Night, 1938, (1946). Artist: Eric Ravilious
Chemist Shop at Night, 1938, (1946). Coloured Lithograph originally for, High Street by Eric Ravilious published 1938. From English Printed Books, by Francis Meynell. [Collins, London, 1946]

Dmitri Mendeleev, caricature
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907). Caricature of the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Dmitry Mendeleyev, Russian chemist
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907), Russian chemist. Mendeleyev (or Mendeleev) was initially an indifferent student, but left college at the top of his class

Berwick High Street
The High Street and Town Hall at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, looking very appealing, with few cars and not too busy

Marie Curie - Nobel Prize-winning Polish Scientist
Marie Curie (1867-1934) - Polish Scientist, twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for her pioneering research on radioactivity, the first woman Nobel winner. Date: 1911

Count of St Germain, French alchemist
Count of St Germain (c.1712-1784), French alchemist. St Germain was a French courtier and adventurer who rose to prominence in Europe in the mid-18th century

Daltons table of Atomic symbols, 1835
John Dalton (1766-1844) English chemist. Daltons table of Atomic symbols from a lecture delivered by him at the Manchester Mechanics Institution, October 1835

Humphry Davy, caricature
Humphry Davy. Caricature of the British chemist and physicist Humphry Davy (1778-1829), holding a Davy lamp. The Davy lamp was a safety lamp designed for use in coal mines

Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby
JLJ4657580 Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby (1734-1797) 18th century Sun

Savory & Moores Pharmacy, 143 New Bond Street, London, 1912. Shop front with window display and royal coat of arms over the door indicating by appointment to the royal family

Boots The Chemist
October 1916: The exterior of Boots the Chemist shop in a British high street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dmitri Mendeleyevs Periodic Table in which the elements are arranged by atomic weight in groups of related chemical
MENDELEYEV: PERIODIC TABLE. Dmitri Mendeleyevs Periodic Table in which the elements are arranged by atomic weight in groups of related chemical and physical properties, early 20th century

Birstall, W Yorkshire - Unveiling statue of Joseph Priestly
Birstall, W Yorkshire - Unveiling the statue of Joseph Priestly on 12th October 1912 - at this point the unveiling party had adjourned to the Temperance Hall

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794). French chemist.. Established the composition of the water and the basis of bioenergetics

MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867) establishing the fundamental law of electrolysis: colored engraving, 19th century

Watson and Crick, DNA discovers
Watson and Crick. Caricature of the molecular biologists and discoverers of the structure of DNA James Watson (born 1928, left) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with their model of a DNA molecule

Isaac Asimov, US author and biochemist
Isaac Asimov. Caricature of the Soviet-born American science fiction writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

Persian pharmacy, 13th century artwork
Persian pharmacy. 13th century Arabic artwork entitled The Preparation of Medicine from Honey. This image was produced in Baghdad, Iraq, whilst it was still part of the Persian Empire

Louis Pasteur in his laboratory. Hand-colored photogravure of an illustration by Albert Edelfelt

Dmitri Mendeleyev
DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV Russian chemist, noted for production of the periodic law, enabling him to predict hitherto undiscovered elements

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). British chemist and physicist. Faraday in his laboratory. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London. The British Museum

Distillation, 16th century woodcut
Distillation. Coloured 16th century woodcut depicting apparatus used for distillation

James Watt in his Glasgow workshop improving on Thomas Newcomens 1712 Newcomen
3588302 James Watt in his Glasgow workshop improving on Thomas Newcomens 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, from Les Merveilles de la Science, pub.1870

Montreal Pharmacy, Canada. Allegedly (according to this card) the largest (and most luxiously appointed) of its kind in the world!

Farmacia Sign, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

Laboratory chemist writes a chemical formula
MODEL RELEASED. Chemical formula. Female scientist in a laboratory writes a chemical formula on glass while observed by a male scientist

Northbrook Street in Newbury, Berkshire. Newbury is to become a city. 19th March 1964

John Dalton, British chemist C017 / 7114
John Dalton (1766-1844), British chemist, physicist and meteorologist. Daltons atomic theory that explained chemical changes was published in A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808)

Marie Curie, caricature
Marie Curie. Caricature of the Polish chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934), holding a round bottomed flask. Curie is known for her pioneering early work with radioactivity

Caroline Square Skipton a58_00217
75 - 79 Caroline Square, Skipton, Craven, North Yorkshire. A view from the north-west looking towards 75-79 Caroline Square and 2-10 New Market Street

Advert for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends... 1912
Advertisement for Pears Soap - A Chemist Recommends the product for its pure, genuine, good value and effective properties! Date: 1912

Isaac Newton, caricature C013 / 7593
Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Caricature of the English physicist, mathematician and alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, holding a rainbow

Boots advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists from 1913, offering Drugs, Gifts and Your ideals realised. Date: 1913

Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist
Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), Polish-French physicist. With her husband Pierre, she isolated the radioactive elements polonium and radium in 1898

Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists
Marie and Pierre Curie. Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), was born in Poland. In 1891 she became a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris, France

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist. Louis Pasteur proved the germ theory of disease, which holds that germs attack the body from the outside

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist, born Tobol sk, Siberia on February 7, 1834, died St Petersburg (now Leningrad), February 2, 1907

Pierre Curie, French physicist
Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Nobel Prize-winning French physicist. Curie studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he subsequently became an assistant teacher

Medical Fund Dispensary Waiting Room, c1910
The Medical Fund Society in Milton Road housed swimming baths, Turkish and Russian Baths, a dispensary and a dentist. It was built in 1892

Medical Fund Dispensary, 1947
This large dispensary was sitauted on theground floor of the Milton Road building. The prescriptions were handed out through hatches to people in the waiting rooms adjacent

Walgreen Drug Store - Baronne and Canal Streets, New Orleans
Walgreen Drug Store - 900 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: 1950s

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (1864-1943). American botanist, chemist, and educator. Lithograph by Richard Brent, c1940

Joseph Priestley, caricature C015 / 6707
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Caricature of the British chemist and clergyman Joseph Priestley. Priestly is best known as the discoverer of oxygen

Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), British chemist and X-ray crystallographer, holding a model of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

King's Road, Brighton, c. 1910 (b/w photo)
3037857 King's Road, Brighton, c.1910 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

The opening of the Chelsea Drugstore in the Kings Road London

Market square, Mafeking, South Africa
Market square in Mafeking (Mahikeng, Mafikeng), NW Province, South Africa, with people and stalls, with shops in the distance. Date: circa 1910s

Advert, Arthur Pelling of Chiswick, photography
Advertisement and receipt for Arthur Pelling Ltd of Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, West London, photography supplier and chemist

Rudolf II with his alchemist, artwork C013 / 9565
Rudolf II with his alchemist, artwork

Davy experimenting at Vesuvius, 1819
Davy experimenting at Vesuvius. 19th-century artwork of British chemist Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) in 1819 carrying out experiments on the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, Italy

LAVOISIER, Marie Anne Pierrette (1758-1836); Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794). Lavoisiers wife and collaborator.; French chemist. Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier and wife, chemist
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794, centre left), French chemist, with his wife Marie-Anne- Pierrette (1758-1836) in his laboratory. Lavoisier is recognised as the founder of modern chemistry

Elemental analysis
MODEL RELEASED. Elemental analysis. Laboratory technician using an inductively coupled plasma - atomic optical emission spectrometer (ICP-AES)

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist, in his laboratory. Louis Pasteur proved the germ theory of disease, which holds that germs attack the body from the outside

LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895). French chemist and microbiologist. Photographed by Nadar in 1889

Sir James Dewar / Cig Card
SIR JAMES DEWAR Scottish chemist and physicist

Chemist Shop Window
Coloured liquids in bottles in a chemists shop window

Pierre Curie
PIERRE CURIE French chemist

C16 CHEMISTs SHOP
MEDICINES WHILE YOU WAIT: a druggist of the 16th century prepares a medicament, pounding the ingredients with pestle and mortar while two customers wait with their dog. Date: circa 1570

BORODIN
ALEKSANDR PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN Russian composer, and chemist

MENDELEYEV
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev Russian Chemist

Portrait of Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (1843-1898), 1870s. Creator: Purdy & Frear
Portrait of Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (1843-1898), 1870s

The Royal Society (engraving)
1046913 The Royal Society (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Royal Society, a Portrait Group of some of the Most Distinguished Fellows)

Louis Pasteur (litho)
3093949 Louis Pasteur (litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Louis Pasteur. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Nelson Pillar, Dublin, Ireland. circa 1905

Thomas Nortons laboratory, c1477 (1652). Engraving after a manuscript in the British Museum, London, which is probably the earliest illustration of a balance in a glass case

Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire
Boys being taught in the Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire. Date: circa 1905

Main Street, Aztec, New Mexico, USA
Part of Main Street, Aztec, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1907

People on a bus, Lincoln to Olympia
People on a bus, travelling from Lincoln to Olympia. The advertisement on the side of the bus reads: Battles, Chemists, a century of public service

England / Chipping Ongar
Chipping Ongar, Essex, looking very unspoilt and tranquil, with very little traffic about

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778-1829). English chemist. Oil on canvas, 1803, by Henry Howard

HUMPHRY DAVY (1778-1829). English chemist, pictured with, bottom right, the miners safety lamp he invented in 1815. Wood engraving, 19th century

Woolleys Chemists labels
Woolleys Ltd Chemists, bottle labels, Brimstone and Treacle Tablets, Winter Lung and Chest Wafer and Special Menthol Tablets 1908 Date: 1908

Scientist in Metropolitan Police laboratory
A scientist at work in a Metropolitan Police laboratory, during the early days of forensic science. Date: circa 1920s

Using typewriter
The Lion, a pharmacy at Landskrona, Sweden, 1953. Date: 1953

Chemist Demonstrates

Chemist Shop C19Th
A reconstruction of an old chemist shop in the Black Country Museum

Priestleys Apparatus
Joseph Priestley, English clergyman and chemist. Priestleys gas-making apparatus

Alfrison Cross 1939
ALFRISTON The stone market cross infront of the old smugglers house

Rene Descartes / Holl
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY English chemist and clergyman, who discovered oxygen

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"Exploring the World of Chemistry: From England to Ulverston" Step into the fascinating world of chemistry, where groundbreaking discoveries and remarkable individuals have shaped our understanding of the elements. In England's picturesque town of Ulverston, a birthplace to many scientific pioneers, chemists have left an indelible mark on history. One such luminary was Marie Curie (1867-1934), a Polish scientist who revolutionized our understanding of radioactivity. Her tireless work earned her two Nobel Prizes and cemented her as one of the most influential figures in scientific research. Dmitri Mendeleev, renowned for his creation of the periodic table, is often depicted in caricatures that capture his genius. One can almost imagine him pondering over atomic symbols while strolling down Berwick High Street. In a whimsical Punch cartoon engraving titled "Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames, " we witness Michael Faraday - another brilliant chemist - humorously introducing himself to London's iconic river. This lighthearted portrayal reflects both Faraday's wit and his significant contributions to electromagnetism. Venturing further back in time, we encounter Count of St Germain, a mysterious French alchemist whose experiments captivated Europe during the 18th century. His quest for immortality remains shrouded in intrigue and fascination even today. The progress made by chemists throughout history has been aided by technological advancements like the mass spectrometer introduced in 1954. This instrument allowed scientists to analyze substances with unprecedented precision, unlocking new realms within chemistry. Boots The Chemist stands as a testament to how pharmacies have played an integral role in providing access to essential chemicals and medicines throughout generations. Savory & Moores Pharmacy on New Bond Street exemplifies this tradition dating back to 1912 when it served as a hub for pharmaceutical expertise.