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History of Science Museum

Box of Glass Negatives with Envelope Containing Two Associated Documents

Inventory Number 22797


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.22797

Item type
Object
Physical material
Glass
Object type
Glass negative
Inventory No
22797

Description

Box of seventeen glass negatives. Most of the slides show measuring instruments. Two of the slides have a scene with a large group of men of science at a gathering. Various scientific instruments appear in the foreground and background, which also has a human skeleton and some animal skeletons. There is also an envelope containing two associated documents. They are a letter from Geo Chaundy, a photographer, to Robert Gunther, the first curator of the Museum of the History of Science, and a postcard from Gunther to Geo Chaundy.

.1) Cardboard box with lift-up lid.

.2) Seventeen glass negatives. Most of the slides show measuring instruments. Two of the slides have a scene with a large group of men of science at a gathering. Various scientific instruments appear in the foreground and background, which also has a human skeleton and some animal skeletons.

.3) Envelope containing two associated documents. They are a letter from Geo Chaundy, a photographer, to Robert Gunther, the first curator of the Museum of the History of Science, and a postcard from Gunther to Geo Chaundy.