A wooden box with a hinged lid and 2 securing fastening.
Category
Wooden objects
Date
1900
Materials
Wood, Metal
Measurements
101 x 420 x 110 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520815.1
Summary
A wooden box with wooden inserts to hold lantern slides, a hinged lid and 2 brass fastening hooks. A small white label on top of box, right back corner - 4 sets - P38. Inside the box lid there are 4 labels, left to right - First label - Dick Whittington 12 slides with a double blue border. Second label - Cinderella 12 slides with a double blue border. Third label - Cat 12 slides with a double blue border. Forth label - Naughty Tommy 12 slides with a double blue border.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.