Dispatches from the Melton Prior Institut (2)

The second delivery from the Melton Prior Institute (meltonpriorinstitut.org). Alexander Roob and Clemens Krümmel have activated their unique archive of non-photographic picture journalism and showcase examples from the coverage of epidemics in illustrated journals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today: a multi-part reportage on the cholera in Hamburg in the summer/fall 1892 from the Illustrated London News:

“The Cholera at Hamburg” (“Sketches by Our Special Artist, Mr J. Schönberg”), The Illustrated London News, September 10, 1892

“The Cholera at Hamburg” (“Fumigating Our Special Artist”), The Illustrated London News, September 17, 1892

“The Cholera at Hamburg” (“Sketches by Our Special Artist, Mr J. Schönberg”), The Illustrated London News, October 1, 1892