Prints and Instructions for Making Composite Portraits

Small bundle annotated "Prints of Alexander, and instructions to a learner for making composite photographs from them". Contents:

Galton's pen and pencil instructions for using the supplied prints to make composite images; 3 ff.

Envelope containing bent nails, to keep the images secured in place.

Envelope annotated "arrangement for prints", containing numerals on gummed paper, and 1 folio of instructions for arranging the prints.

11 prints of images of Napoleon.

Several rolled folios bearing multiple images of Alexander (plus Galton Laboratory photocopy).

1889

1 folder

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.

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

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.