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Nicholas Guppy Collection: slides of travels in South America
Catalogue reference: ARC/GUP
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This record is about the Nicholas Guppy Collection: slides of travels in South America dating from circa 1958 - circa 1990.
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- ARC/GUP
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Title (The name of the record)
- Nicholas Guppy Collection: slides of travels in South America
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Date (When the record was created)
- circa 1958 - circa 1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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Photographic slides, prints, and other documents relating to Nicholas Guppy's travels through South America, including the Amazon and the lands of the Wai Wai (WaiWai, Wai-Wai) people.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Guppy, Nicholas
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 boxes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Digitial images of these slides can be viewed on the Museum's online catalogue: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/explore-the-collections/archives/ Please contact enquiries@horniman.ac.uk to arrange viewing these records.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- transparent film; photography
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Nicholas Guppy, botanist and explorer, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and educated at Kelly College, Tavistock and then Trinity College, Cambridge where he took a degree in Botany. He studied at the Imperial Forestry Institute in Oxford, followed by a year in Magdalen College before travelling to British Guiana with the Colonial Service. Whilst there, Guppy led six expeditions to the interior. During these trips, Guppy encountered the indigenous Wai Wai and Mawayana tribes and he wrote about these in encounters in two books, the first of which, ?Wai-Wai? (1958), described remote regions of the upper Essequibo River on the Brazilian border.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c823d399-b6f9-4992-96e0-2843c3c3329c/
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Nicholas Guppy Collection: slides of travels in South America