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Wellcome Foundation Ltd


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WF

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Wellcome Foundation Ltd

Date(s): [1860 - 1995]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2009 boxes, 900 plans, 266 certificates, 341 guard books, 135 items, 6433 images, 57 rolls of film, 731 av tapes, 42 vol

Name of creator(s): Wellcome Foundation Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Before 1924 the Wellcome Foundation Ltd was known as Burroughs Wellcome and Company (BW and Co.), formed by the 1880 partnership between Henry Solomon Wellcome and Silas Mainville Burroughs. The Wellcome Foundation Ltd was formed in 1924, as an amalgamation of Wellcome's business and other interests including the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, incorporating the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories and the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, and also including the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, and the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Burroughs Wellcome and Company (BW and Co) and from 1924 the Wellcome Foundation Ltd (WF), [1860-1995], including records of the pre-partnership S M Burroughs Company; papers relating to the founders Henry S Wellcome and Silas M Burroughs; papers of senior managers from BW and Co and WF; legal papers, particularly concerned with Trade Marks and Stamp Duty; marketing records including operational papers, a large collection of images and of publications; financial records, mainly regarding salaries; papers relating to WF sites, including the Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford; records of Coopers, the subsidiary veterinary company, together with records of Coopers own world-wide subsidiary companies; records of related bodies, the British Insulin Manufacturers Association and The Therapeutic Research Corporation.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection is currently undergoing arrangement.

Conditions governing access:

Most of the papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. ** PLEASE NOTE - THE WF ARCHIVE IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CATALOGUED AND PACKAGED IN ORDER TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. SERIES DESCRIPTIONS (GROUPS OF RECORDS WITHIN THE COLLECTION) ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR MATERIAL NOT YET CATALOGUED. IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC INTEREST IN UNCATALOGUED MATERIAL PLEASE CONTACT THE MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT**

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Before they were passed to what were then GlaxoWellcome Heritage Archives as a result of the 1995 Glaxo - Wellcome merger, the Wellcome Foundation Archive had a complex custodial history. For a detailed description of the history of the records see the Wellcome Library Catalogue

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Burroughs Wellcome Co; British Insulin Manufacturers; Creasy, William N; Nevin, Thomas; Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research; Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories; Burroughs Wellcome and Company; Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories and Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome.

Board Minutes and Papers, and the Research and Development papers have been retained by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (formerly GlaxoWellcome (GW)).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Chemical works | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Pharmaceutical industry | Chemical industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Stamp duties | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance
Trade marks | Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Wages | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Company archives

Personal names
Burroughs | Silas Mainville | 1846-1895 | American pharmacist.
Wellcome | Sir | Henry Solomon | 1853-1936 | Knight | manufacturing chemist, patron of science and archaeologist

Corporate names
British Insulin Manufacturers
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd
Therapeutic Research Corporation
Wellcome Foundation Limited

Places