Cardboard box for set of 12 coloured lantern slides
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1911
Materials
Cardboard, Paper, Metal staples
Measurements
95 x 100 x 50 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520817.13
Summary
Buff coloured cardboard box for a set of 12 coloured lithographic glass lantern slides, depicting the story of Robinson Crusoe. Probably manufactured and retailed by J Theobald & Co. of London. The box is stapled at the joins. On the top of the lid is a paper label printed in black type with a red decorative border. The text reads: "12 Superior English Made Lantern Slides, 3¼ x 3¼. Price [left blank]." Handwritten on the label in black ink is "Robinson Crusoe 1st". Handwritten in pencil on the side of the lid is "95".
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.