Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1926.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
January | 21 | Blackwood leaves Wellesley College and travels to Hindman, Kentucky | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
February | ||||
March | 10 | Blackwood arrives at Berea, Kentucky | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
March | 24 | Blackwood arrives at Johnson City, Tennessee, at end of March she moves to Philadelphia, then Atlantic City, then Wellesley where she stays till 13.4.1926 when she moves to Cleveland Ohio | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
[Spring] | Balfour visits Egypt | PRM ms collections J.P. Mills correspondence, 2 February 1926 and 20 June 1926 | ||
April | ||||
May | 12 | Blackwood arrives at Sante Fe, New Mexico where she stays about a month, visiting Albuquerque from 21 May to 4 June | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
June | 13 | Blackwood arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, she also visits Tucson | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
July | 13 | Blackwood visits Grand Canyon, she works in Arizona for rest of month, spending August travelling round SW USA | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
August | No day | Lower Gallery reopens for BAAS meeting at Oxford which visits museum | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1925 | |
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November | ||||
December | 19 | Blackwood in Chicago | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
Unspecified | Carline resigns as Assistant Curator | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Thomas Kenneth Penniman registers as Diploma student | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Ernest Seymour Thomas works on cataloguing and labeling objects | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1926 | ||
Unspecified | New model of wall cases built in Upper Gallery | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1926 | ||
Unspecified | Roof repaired. New heating pipes laid in museum, but problems are experienced and further work is required | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1926 | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: None listed in annual report but work is done | Relational Museum timelines |
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