Rubber Warehouse at St Katharine Docks 1910

Black and white photograph of the exterior of the rubber warehouse and facilities of the Argos Steamship Company, London and Bremen Line, St Katharine Docks. A freighter can be seen moored in front of the warehouse. The expansion of large-scale trade in pharmaceutical raw materials during the nineteenth century was not only confined to crude drugs of plant origin. Many materials had to be imported. Non-medicinal commodities used in the production of medical and pharmaceutical equipment and appliances were also important, as illustrated by the transportation and storage of rubber in the early twentieth century.