Slide of a mini pass with a chorten on the right and prayer flags across the road
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Black and white print of cattle and hay (?) being transported on a river raft
Photograph of a conservator Eddie Paterson tending to an exhibit called 'Evolution of the Elephant', circa 1950
Black and white negative of Guyana coastline from the air with visible cultivated fields and inlet
A Handbook to the Cases Illustrating the Evolution of Animals, 1928
Collection Information
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