Handwritten Sign

Date:
c1885
Reference:
GALTON/2/8/1/11/1
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Large handwritten sign reading: "Composite Photographs of Jewish Faces by Francis Galton, FRS. These are the originals of those reduced and published by the Photographic News in April 1885, of which one page is mounted here for comparison. The large figures with capital letters attached, are Composites. The small faces with Italic letters are the individual likenesses, whence the composites that bear the same letter [word obscured]"

Publication/Creation

c1885

Physical description

1 item

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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