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Homage to Gustav Theodor Fritsch. Watercolour by J. Unte, 1906.

World on a glass plate : early anthropological photographs from the Pitt Rivers Museum / Elizabeth Edwards, Lynne Williamson.

Images from the Likeness House / Dan Savard.

Anthropology and photography, 1860-1920 / edited by Elizabeth Edwards.

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

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Homage to Gustav Theodor Fritsch. Watercolour by J. Unte, 1906.

World on a glass plate : early anthropological photographs from the Pitt Rivers Museum / Elizabeth Edwards, Lynne Williamson.

Images from the Likeness House / Dan Savard.

Anthropology and photography, 1860-1920 / edited by Elizabeth Edwards.

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.