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Catalogue description British Museum (Natural History): Publications Section: Director's Office: Photographic Section: Negative Registers (MN Series)
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| Reference: | DF 503 |
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| Title: | British Museum (Natural History): Publications Section: Director's Office: Photographic Section: Negative Registers (MN Series) |
| Description: |
The volumes in this series provide a register of numbered negatives. Brief details are given of the image, who requested it and why, and the negative size. Entries are only rarely dated. Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF PUB/503). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 503. |
| Date: | c 1948-1973 |
| Held by: | Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Former reference in its original department: | MN series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 9 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records were transferred to the archives in 1982. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Maurice Geoffrey Sawyer, the Museum Photographer, worked within the Director's Office from 1937, being a member of the Exhibition Section from 1948 until he retired in 1970. He was succeeded by Peter John Green (b 1932), as first head of the Photographic Section, which was transferred to the Department of Central Services in 1974. |
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