Black-and-white negative

Museum number:
15-30266
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21150030266
Alternate number:
CE-51 (previous number (collector's original number)) and TEMP 2017.164 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
Black and white negative of a delivery boy carrying a box titled "The Kandy Bakery" Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. The "Kandy Kid." Labor is cheap in Ceylon and most deliveries are made by boys and men who carry the packages or produce on top their heads. This energetic you Sinhalese was chief delivery boy for the Kandy bakery. He got around so quickly and was seen in so many places within a short period that for a long time Hoefler thought he was twins!
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Verbatim coll. place:
Island of Ceylon, Kandy
Culture or time period:
Sinhalese
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1931-1932
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Place depicted:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Function:
7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)
Production date:
1931-1932
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
whole— height 4 inches and whole— length 5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30266, described as Black and white negative of a delivery boy carrying a box titled "The Kandy Bakery" Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. The "Kandy Kid." Labor is cheap in Ceylon and most deliveries are made by boys and men who carry the packages or produce on top their heads. This energetic you Sinhalese was chief delivery boy for the Kandy bakery. He got around so quickly and was seen in so many places within a short period that for a long time Hoefler thought he was twins!Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30266, described as Black and white negative of a delivery boy carrying a box titled "The Kandy Bakery" Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. The "Kandy Kid." Labor is cheap in Ceylon and most deliveries are made by boys and men who carry the packages or produce on top their heads. This energetic you Sinhalese was chief delivery boy for the Kandy bakery. He got around so quickly and was seen in so many places within a short period that for a long time Hoefler thought he was twins!

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