Fingerprints: Cards From I Bundle

Date:
c1895
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/11/3/3
Part of:
Sets of Fingerprints
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Seven bundles of cards and one cardboard label reading "M to Q". All the packaging is marked "Cards from 1st bundle". The cards each have two fingerprints pasted onto the front and the name of the individual on the reverse. Each person has been assigned a number; the cards do not run in numerical order. Family relationships, e.g. "D. of 621" "F. of 609" are noted at the top of each card. Approximately 600 cards in total.

Bundle 1: cardboard label

Bundle 2: numbers between 600-698

Bundle 3: numbers between 520-599 plus 840

Bundle 4: numbers between 400-497

Bundle 5: numbers between 300-397 plus 630

Bundle 6: numbers between 200-298

Bundle 7: numbers between 100-199 plus 204

Bundle 8: numbers between 11-99

Note that the cards are not in numerical order and not every number is present.

Publication/Creation

c1895

Physical description

8 bundles

Terms of use

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Where to find it

Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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