Includes a brief summary of the first years of the Friends group, including the reasons for its foundation, a copy of the press notice on the launch of the Friends in 1988, a summary of Philip Spooner's attendence at a meeting of the Museum Advisory Committee to discuss the Friends, and an agenda for inqugerla meeting of the Friends on 2nd July 1988.
Records summarising the early history of the Friends of the Horniman Museum
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Surrey House Museum: Ethnographical Saloon
object | ARC/HMG/PH/SHM/MBP45/002
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35mm slide: Kiln
object | ARC/BAL/005/135
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Black and white negative of the head and shoulders of a Wai Wai man. Negative of photograph 5, taken from slide 7
object | ARC/GUP/004/008
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Photograph of a conservator Eddie Paterson tending to an exhibit called 'Evolution of the Elephant', circa 1950
object | ARC/HMG/PH/NHG/MBP39
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