Fingerprint Sets by Racial Group

Date:
1891-1893
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/3/1
Part of:
Fingerprints of Families and Racial Groups
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Fingerprint Sets by Racial Group. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider

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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Description

Sets of fingerprints from groups intended to represent different "races" including European people, Jewish people, black people, English children and Welsh children. Includes original fingerprints and enlarged prints. Also includes some notes, correspondence and handprints. See GALTON/2/9/6/3/4/2 for correspondence and other material analysing these sets.

Publication/Creation

1891-1893

Physical description

2 boxes

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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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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