M0019442: Wicker helmet covered with a cotton cloth, for protection from the sun, 1858

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Wicker sun-helmet, 1858.

Illustration of a wicker sun-helmet authorized for use in 1858 by the Governor General of India. Published in Renbourn, E. T.: Life and death of the solar topi : protection of the head from the sun : a chapter in the history of sunstroke, London : Clothing and Equipment Physiological Research Establishment, 1961

1963

4 photographs sheet film negatives, slide transparencies; range in size from 8.3 x 10.8 cm to 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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