Project specification, proposed costings and design concepts for the refurbishment of the desk of the Friends of the Horniman in 2003. Also enclosed is a blank questionnaire for completion by people staffing the Friends' Desk, an interim report on the relocation of the desk in October 2003, and draft wording for the Friends' Placard.
Refurbishment of the Friends' desk
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35mm slide: Carpenter with plumb line purchased, now in Museum collections
35mm slide: Circular gathering in Dong village
Photograph: representatives of the Horniman Museum and London County Council during the ceremony for the modernisation of the South Hall, 1965
Aladire painting with starch paste and chicken feathers
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