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Central Asiatic Expeditions copy slides, 1966.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 164

Abstract

Photographic copy slides made from the original hand-colored lantern slides. Field photographs from the Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930). Images of Mongolian people and landscape, fossil beds where dinosaur eggs were found and scenes from traveling on land. Places include Mongolia, Tibet, China and Gobi Desert.

Dates

  • 1966

Restrictions on Access

Please contact Special Collections; materials are sometimes restricted.

Extent

80 Photographic Slides

Language of Materials

English

Condition

condition reviewed 20110826 good

General Note

All slides are captioned.

General Note

Includes field photographs.

General Note

Most slides contain negative numbers and K numbers.

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Sponsor
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided support to make this finding aid available in ArchivesSpace (2016-2017). Minimal level collection record created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Hidden Collections grant, 2010.

Repository Details

Part of the Research Library Special Collections Repository

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