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James B. W. Cater fonds
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- Graphic material
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5 glass plate negatives : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
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The glass plate negatives were donated by Joan Macpherson, the daughter of James B. W. Cater.
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Fonds consists of five glass plate negatives taken in the early 1930s by James B. W. Cater when he worked for a farming company on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle.
Glass plate negatives feature: a young girl posed in front of a moai, the monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people; a portrait of a young girl; group portraits taken outdoors.
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Cater's daughter donated the negatives to the MOA archives in 2015.
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Multiple Private Records Box 8
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Material has been digitized (a039927 - a039932)
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Updated October 2018 by Alexandra Alisauskas (digitized images added and described).