Headings: making department, polishing & finishing, miscellaneous making. Lists job numbers, brass instruments made, listed by batch, no serial numbers.
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Black and white negative of two women standing on steps under stone archway in middle of forest

Benin. Washing, cooking - Palm oil. Preparing in town.

Photograph: Richard Quick junior and Louise Quick pictured riding the stuffed polar bear at the Horniman Museum

Carte de visite featuring a photograph of an unknown woman
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