Photograph of the foundations being prepared for the Horniman Museum's West Hall, featuring four workmen, June 1933
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Shoe repairer, Ilorin (mat screen)
Colour slide of young man sitting on a bull
Photograph of a wreath laying ceremony marking the completion of the restoration of Coombe Cliffe Conservatory at the Horniman Museum in 1989
Slides taken in Muscat, Oman by Ann Douthwaite, 1973-1976
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