Negatives relating to the Harvard and Adelaide Universities 1938-1939 and University of California Los Angeles 1952-1954 expeditions and Solomon Islanders.

Archive Collections / Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell / Negatives relating to the Harvard and Adelaide Universities 1938-1939 and University of California Los Angeles 1952-1954 expeditions and Solomon Islanders.
Date Range:  1911  -  1954
Collection: Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell
Arranged: by subject
Series Identifier: AA689/05

This series includes nitrate, glass and acetate negatives taken on or relate to the Harvard and Adelaide Universities, 1938-1939 and University of California Los Angeles, 1952-1954 expeditions. In particular are the following:

  • Nitrate negtives taken for the expedition sociological data cards and acetate negatives taken during the expeditions

  • Glass Negative taken during the visit of Governor Barron to Cape Barren Island, January 1911 and glass negatives of three Tasmanians

  • Acetate negatives if Solomon Islanders

  • Acetate negatives of A Atkinson and JW Beattie photographs

  • Negatives of figures from publications

  • Negatives of crania, archaeology and site excavations

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Included Items
AA 689/5/1 - Nitrate Negatives for Sociological Data Cards, Board for Anthropological Research: Harvard Adelaide Expedition 1938-1939.
AA 689/5/2 - Nitrate Negatives for Sociological Data Cards, Board for Anthropological Research: University of California Los Angeles Expedition, 1952-1954.
AA 689/5/3/1-2 - Glass Negative taken on the occasion of the visit of Governor Barron to Cape Barren Island, January 1911.
AA 689/5/3/3-5 - Glass Negatives: Individual Portraits of Three Men.
AA 689/5/4/1-2 - Acetate Negatives: Volumes 1 and 2.