M0005554: Two illustrations of men using a hand drill to create fire, Australia

Date:: 8 August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/45/66

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        M0005554: Two illustrations of men using a hand drill to create fire, AustraliaWT/D/1/20/1/45/66

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations of 2 fire-drillers from N. & S. E. Australia

Description

Two images on one negative: reproductions illustrations of men making fire from North East and South East Australian. Published in Frobenius, Leo: Childhood of man, London, 1909. A photograph of the illustrations was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10844).

Publication/Creation

8 August 1938

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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