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Item MM 113867 Negative - Three Men in Canoe, Pacific Islands, circa 1930s

Summary

Negative depicting three men in a canoe.

Part of a collection of 55 photographic lantern slides, glass negatives and acetate negatives of travel images taken in the Pacific Islands, probably in the late 1930s.

Description of Content

Three men rowing in a canoe.

Physical Description

Black and white cellulose acetate negative.

More Information

Collecting Areas

Images & Image Making
Place & Date Depicted

Pacific Islands, circa 1930s
Format

Negative, Black & White
Classification

Water transport, Rowing & paddle craft, Canoes
Category

History & Technology
Discipline

History
Type of item

Image
Image Dimensions - Negative/s

104 mm (Width), 79 mm (Height)
Keywords

Canoeing, Canoes, Flags, Oceans, Rowers, Rowing, Pacific Islands

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