Built up during a period of almost
35years the full Hunter Figurehead archive can be divided
into two quite distinctive areas of research, the first
and perhaps most important are the  photographic
representations of Ships Figurehead, both on and off the
vessel, plus a number of other Maritime Woodcarvings, such
as Stern Board carvings, and Cats heads, this is built up
from historic Black and White prints taken from the early
1900’s until the late 1950’s, to more contemporary
prints in colour, and now digital images, the Archive also
has an extensive collection of colour slides from both private
and public collections around the World, many show figureheads
that have been lost, due to War, Fire or just neglect, or
are no longer on public display, and now part of private
collections. In many ways it has been possible to study
the life of individual carvings over a long period of time,
looking at both historic black and white photos and more
contemporary prints showing before and after restoration
or damage, at the moment the photographic collection stands
at around 10,000 photos, with over 3,000 slides and is growing
with new items each day.
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