photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,B36.4
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a two North American pieces of stone, with grooves carved into centre of each stone.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1880s
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5.80 centimetres (image)
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: This image was found with a letter from Chas A Hirschfelder (Toronto Canada) to A W Franks, sent in June 1881. The letter states that the object in this image belongs to the collection of Hirschfelder, and the numbering on the images are for identification purposes should Franks want any information on the objects.
The letter can be found in the PicDoc for this image.
The collection of Charles A Hirschfelder is now in the Canadian Museum of Civilisation.
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Acquisition/Associated name: This image is stored in a box labelled as "William Blackmore". There is no associated documentation to determine that the collection was acquired from the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury in 1932, at the same time as Blackmore albums within the BM Pictorial Collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,B36.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 11 (Hirschfelder series number)
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Miscellaneous number: B/2978 (Old BM collection number)