A collection of documents and photographs created and collected by Dr. Otto Samson, former curator of the Horniman Museum, and his wife Elizabeth Samson. The collection includes loose photographs and albums and documents from Samson's early career in the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg, Germany.
Otto Samson albums, prints and documents
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Black and white print of Wai Wai tribe member straddling fallen tree with massive leaf rucksack
object | ARC/GUP/003/073
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Black and white medium format negative (scanned positive) of head and shoulders close up of a man
object | ARC/GUP/007/018
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Invitation to view the Surrey House Museum
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/130
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A photocopy of an agreement between G. D. Ratcliffe and Sam Browne
object | ARC/RAT/014
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