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 negative of men working with drill on back of truck in mine
object | ARC/GUP/006/031
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Stock fish for sale
object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/559/002
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35mm slide: Food
object | ARC/BAL/005/202
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Slide of the only crossroads in Thimpu with a policeman directing the traffic
object | ARC/BAL/003/020
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