35mm slide: Grandmothers with embroidered squares on the fronts of their costumes.
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Ripe guinea corn. Seeds used for tyeing into cloth
35mm slide: Bed in hotel – Peter Baldwin mentions mosquito net in the log book. Chinese hotel. Ronjiang?
Black and white medium format negative of fencing with a group of sheep in front
Press cutting announcing the re-opening of the Horniman Museum after being closed due to war damage
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