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Reproduction of a photograph published in Lacaille, A.D: "Stone Age Tools", Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, vol.13, 1954. Related images: M0015957, M0015959, M0015960, M0015961

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0015958-M0016059

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0015959: Graver (burin) production, demonstrated by Leon Coutier using side-blow method

M0015960: Graver (burin) production, demonstrated by Leon Coutier using side-blow method

M0015961: Graver (burin) production, demonstrated by Leon Coutier using side-blow method

M0015962: Leon Coutier making flint implement using technique of pressure-trimming from the shoulder

M0015963: Leon Coutier making flint arrowhead using technique of pressure-trimming from the shoulder

M0015964: Leon Coutier making flint arrowhead using technique of pressure-trimming from the shoulder

M0015965: Leon Coutier making flint arrowhead using technique of pressure-trimming from the shoulder

M0015966: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015967: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015968: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015969: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015970: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015971: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015972: Leon Coutier demonstrating the production of blades by the use of the hammer and punch method

M0015973: Leon Coutier making a hand-axe by baton technique

M0015974: Leon Coutier making a hand-axe by baton technique

M0015975: Leon Coutier's anvil technique: striking off flakes and shaping piece of stone

M0015976: Leon Coutier's anvil technique: striking off flakes and shaping piece of stone

M0015977: Section in bore-hole showing Mesolithic implementiferous bed

M0015978: Section exposed in alluvial deposits on low terrace of the Colne Valley

M0015979: View of mere at Sandstone, Iver Heath, c.1935

M0015980: View of Electricity Authority's sub-station occupying site of mere at Sandstone, Iver Heath, November 1955

M0015981: Water Hall gravel pit near Hertford, October 1956

M0015982: Section at side of road, Mauley Cross, Yorkshire, 1956

M0015983: View of ploughed area, Pickering Moor, site of flint workshop, September 1956

M0015984: View of ploughed area, Pickering Moor, site of flint workshop, September 1956

M0015985: View of ploughed area, Pickering Moor, site of flint workshop, September 1956

M0015986: View of ploughed area, Pickering Moor, site of flint workshop, September 1956

M0015987: Section at side of road, Mauley Cross, Yorkshire, 1956

M0015988: Section at side of road, Mauley Cross, Yorkshire, 1956

M0015989: Section at side of road, Mauley Cross, Yorkshire, 1956

M0015990: Portrait of Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957)

M0015991: Letter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Aitken, 27 October 1858

M0015992: Portrait of John Fothergill (1712-1780)

M0015993: George Armstrong House and Dispensary for Sick Children

M0015994: Red Lion Square in 1780

M0015995: Portrait of Arthur Robertson Cushny (1866-1926)

M0015996: Certificate of attendence at William Smellie's midwifery lectures

M0015997: Portrait of Robert Chessher (1750-1831)

M0015998: The Rolls Park Portrait of William Harvey (1578-1657)

M0015999: Poem and scene showing Florence Nightingale in a hospital

M0016000: Operation for knock-knees (genu valgum), 19th century

M0016001: Operation for knock-knees (genu valgum), 19th century

M0016002: Illustration of orthropaedic apparatus and instruments

M0016003: Various bandages and dressings, 1757

M0016004: Dressings, from Goffres: Bandages, pansements et appareils, 1853

M0016005: Preparations of dressings, from Goffres: Bandages, pansements et appareils, 1853

M0016006: Preparations of dressings and bandages, from Goffres: Bandages, pansements et appareils, 1853

M0016007: Engraving of John Shaw's apparatus for treating distorions of the spine and bones of the chest

M0016008: Apparatus for the correction of posture, 1824

M0016009: Apparatus for the correction of posture, 1824

M0016010: Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657

M0016011: Episodes in the plague in Rome of 1656-1657

M0016012: Translation of the titles in the etching of the episodes in the plague of Rome by Gastaldi

M0016013: Map showing ecclesiastical sites in Loch Lomond surveyed and described by A. D. Lacaille between 1919 and 1933

M0016014: Early Atlantic pollen composition of peats at sites in British islands

M0016015: Late Boreal pollen composition of peats at sites in British islands

M0016016: Scales in feet and meters

M0016017: Weathered granite rock-outcrop on Dartmoor, Devon

M0016018: Weathered granite rock-outcrop on Dartmoor, Devon

M0016019: Rock-basin in sandstone, Craigmaddie Moor, Stirlingshire

M0016020: Rock-basin in sandstone, Craigmaddie Moor, Stirlingshire.

M0016021: Merovingian cross resembling a menhir (standing-stone) and profusely inscribed, France

M0016022: Figure of Mars carved on a Gallo-Roman menhir (standing-stone), France

M0016023: Prehistoric sculpted rock at Shegarton, Luss, Dunbartonshire: seen from south-west

M0016024: Prehistoric sculpted rock at Shegarton, Luss, Dunbartonshire: seen from south

M0016025: Prehistoric sculpted rock at Shegarton, Luss, Dunbartonshire: seen from north

M0016026: Prehistoric sculpted rock at Shegarton, Luss, Dunbartonshire: seen from north-east

M0016027: Prehistoric sculpted rock at Shegarton, Luss, Dunbartonshire: seen from south

M0016028: Measured drawings from rubbings of prehistoric sculpted rock at Luss, Dunbartonshire

M0016029: Naturally fractured stone resembling Palaeolithic implement

M0016032: Portrait of Sir George Laurence Gomme (1853-1916)

M0016033: Group photograph including Timothy Richards Lewis, India

M0016034: Emily Frances Lewis, née Brown, in a garden in India

M0016035: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: a face mask from New Britain and two Maori drinking bowls made from human skulls

M0016037: Bone Koauau (flute) played during difficult labour, Maori

M0016038: Maori bowl used to receive the placenta during childbirth

M0016039: Maori raku whakapapa: genealogical staff used as a mneumonic aid when reciting genealogy

M0016040: Cast of the tattooed face of Taupue Te Whanua, made by Sir George Grey, c.1851

M0016041: Seven Maori tattooing instruments

M0016042: Fighting Toki (adze), greenstone blade and carved handle

M0016043: Anthropomorphic effigy with incised designs picked out in white, Trobriand Islands, Western Pacific

M0016044: Anthropomorphic effigy of a head with two arms surmounting a smaller head, Trobriand Islands, Western Pacific

M0016045: Anthropomorphic effigy, Ulawa, Solomon Islands

M0016046: Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, Tami Islands, New Guinea

M0016047: Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands

M0016048: Ancestral mask, New Guinea

M0016049: Female ancestral effigy, middle Sepik River area, New Guinea

M0016050: Anthropomorphic flute ornament, New Guinea

M0016051: Anthropomorphic figure with crested headdress, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

M0016052: Ancestral effigy with long nose or beak, Sepik River area, New Guinea

M0016053: Two Gope boards (Kwoi), New Guinea

M0016054: Skull showing cranial elongation produced by circular constriction, Vanuatu

M0016055: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display of nine combs from various parts of the world

M0016056: Portrait of Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)

M0016057: Two views of Cambridge

M0016058: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

M0016059: The Botanical Gardens, Oxford, 1675

M0015958: A.D. Lacaille making a prehistoric-style graver (burin) using Coutier's side-blow method: blow about to fall

M0015958: A.D. Lacaille making a prehistoric-style graver (burin) using Coutier's side-blow method: blow about to fall

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