item details
NameStock books
ProductionWilliam Downing Webster; records creator; 1897-1900
Classificationmerchandise inventories
Materialspaper, ink, cardboard
Materials SummaryBound volumes
Techniqueshandwriting
Registration NumberCA000229
Overview
William Downing Webster (11 May 1868 – 14 January 1913) was a British ethnographic dealer and collector.
W.D. Webster's business records were acquired by William Ockleford Oldman.These records were later acquired by the New Zealand Government when it purchased the Oldman collection in 1944 and are now owned by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
These stock books give details of Webster’s collections and stock movements and are arranged by the type of specimens gathered i.e. minerals, natural history, needlework, curios, general and ethnographical specimens.
Digitisation of these stock books was supported with funding from Digital Benin www.Digitalbenin.org