Archival material from the Distin Family of musical insturment players and wind instrument agents. The Distin Family was led by John Henry Distin who formed, with his four sons, a brass ensemble known as the Distin Family Quintet. In 1844 the family went to Paris, where they tried the new instruments of Adolphe Sax and immediately adopted them for their quintet. In 1846 John Distin’s firm, Distin & Sons, became British agents for ‘saxhorns’, and in 1850 it began its own manufacture of brasswinds.
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Black and white medium format negative (scanned positive) of 2 men and a group of children by a house with one child taking a dose of medicine
object | ARC/GUP/007/006
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Amazon - Marañon Colombia. Arara village (Ticuna) am (30/32)
object | ARC/GUP/001/181
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Carte de visite featuring a photograph of an unknown child
object | ARC/HMG/HOR/015/085
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Georgetown - from Vread-en-horg stalling
object | ARC/GUP/002/326
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