Caption reads: 'The head of the tuning dept. being weighty on the telephone! Mssrs. Boosey & Hawkes.'
Photograph: Eric McGavin at his desk in the Boosey & Hawkes office
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Horniman Museum: Exhibition of Rumanian Folk Art: lantern slides
object | ARC/HMG/EXH/1957/001/004/024
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object | ARC/GUP/002/053
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object | ARC/PH/C088/003
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