Documents and reports listing ethnographic and musical objects given, sold or lent to the Horniman Museum and Wellcome Institute by Otto Samson - with maps of India and Burma - and objects collected for, sold or lent to the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; K de B. Codrington, Keeper of the India Museum (Victoria and Albert Musuem); His Excellency the Governor of Burma; and other unspecified museums; The Wellcome Museum. Also enclosed is a list of musical instruments beloning to Samson.
Otto Samson material relating to museum loans and sales
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Matraica - st. C Rachel with Parrot
object | ARC/GUP/002/255
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Press release
object | ARC/HMG/EXH/1969/002/001
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Black and white negative distant view of people on hill in forest looking at stone archway
object | ARC/GUP/006/094
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Photograph of 'Special machine for tube drawing for hydraulic bellows, once used for making trombone slides'
object | ARC/BH/BOO/012/001/001/021
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