| Description | Showing male technicians engaged in various tasks at laboratory benches, including [right of image] analysis of bottles of wine. Thomas Edward Thrope appears towards the background centre of the image. Taken at the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London.
Captioned in pencil: 'Analysis of food & drink (in general)'; and in pencil 'G. Philip & Son'. With instructions for size of reproduction. This image was used in the article 'The Government Laboratory', by John Mills, The Strand Magazine, vol.21, May 1901, pp.561-571, and captioned: 'The main laboratory: testing alcoholic drinks, botanic beers, tinctures, etc.'. |