Guide to online holdings
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, 1860–1930
Haffkine developed a vaccine against cholera in Paris in 1892 and one against bubonic plague in Bombay in 1897. The Plague Research Laboratory he led in Bombay was renamed the Haffkine Institute in 1925. His reports, papers and photographs are now held in several libraries. These three are good places to start.
Internet Archive
A 44-page report by W. B. Bannerman, compiled from records in the Plague Department of the Secretariat and the Plague Research Laboratory, Bombay. Free to read online or download.
https://archive.org/details/b28408329
Wellcome Collection, London
A live search of the Wellcome Collection catalogue. It brings up books, pamphlets and a portrait connected with Haffkine, including reports on cholera vaccination and plague inoculation in India. Several can be read online.
https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=haffkine
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
A live search of the library that holds Haffkine’s personal archive. Its Haffkine topic page lists 156 archival items, 53 photographs, 13 books and 5 articles, counted on 4 October 2026.
https://www.nli.org.il/he/search?projectName=NLI#&q=any,contains,collection%20of%20Dr.%20Haffkine&bulkSize=30&index=0&sort=rank&multiFacets=facet_lang,include,eng,1&t=allresults