Black-and-white negative

Museum number:
15-30487
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21150030487
Alternate number:
BHO-7 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
4 x 5" Black and white negative of Hoefler and his expedition posing with a dead tiger and camera equipment. Hoefler's original description: "Bhopal State, Central India. Paul L. Hoefler with the first tiger obtained in Central India near Kheri. Because of the density of the jungle and the wide area over which the tiger ranges, it requires an intimate knowledge of this cat's habits to be successful in photographing. It required months of preparation and weeks of hard work in a killing heat to obtain a few hundred feet of film picturing the tiger in his native jungle." Verso: Prints Supplied To: Socony-Vacuum Corporation. Bell & Howell.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Verbatim coll. place:
Bhopal State, Central India
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1931-1932
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
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 15-30487, described as 4 x 5" Black and white negative of Hoefler and his expedition posing with a dead tiger and camera equipment. Hoefler's original description: "Bhopal State, Central India. Paul L. Hoefler with the first tiger obtained in Central India near Kheri. Because of the density of the jungle and the wide area over which the tiger ranges, it requires an intimate knowledge of this cat's habits to be successful in photographing. It required months of preparation and weeks of hard work in a killing heat to obtain a few hundred feet of film picturing the tiger in his native jungle." Verso: Prints Supplied To: Socony-Vacuum Corporation. Bell & Howell.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30487, described as 4 x 5" Black and white negative of Hoefler and his expedition posing with a dead tiger and camera equipment. Hoefler's original description: "Bhopal State, Central India. Paul L. Hoefler with the first tiger obtained in Central India near Kheri. Because of the density of the jungle and the wide area over which the tiger ranges, it requires an intimate knowledge of this cat's habits to be successful in photographing. It required months of preparation and weeks of hard work in a killing heat to obtain a few hundred feet of film picturing the tiger in his native jungle." Verso: Prints Supplied To: Socony-Vacuum Corporation. Bell & Howell.

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