Guyana Exercise Book Cover with Burnham's Image
This notebook contains diagrams of mitochondrial DNA by Mahendra Bahadur when he was a student at the University of Guyana in the late 1970s.
A heavy wooden vase, carried
This photograph was taken in Cumberland Village in Guyana the year before Gaiutra Bahadur's family left for America. Here, the archival creators fellow is sitting in the living room of the Bahadur family home, built by her grandfather born on a ship from India to Guyana a mile from the plantation where he worked as a sugar cane cutter.
Photograph of Kaimal Family with Friends on Thanksgiving
"Thanksgiving friends: The Madhus, Menons, Kaimals, Augustas, Janice Madhu's mother and stepfather gathered for the holiday. This tradition started when they were graduate students at University of Washington in Seattle, in 1957. They would continue to meet at one another's homes around the country for 50+ years." --Maya Kaimal
Photograph of J.C. Kaimal with Colleagues
J.C. Kaimal and colleagues from the Air Force Cambridge Research Lab. They are inside a trailer where they are collecting data from instruments attached to balloons.