Native workers shovelling stones.
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.10
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a taxiphote viewer, depicting native workers bare to the waist wearing sacking skirts or trousers shovelling stones. In the background is a white man wearing white clothing. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a plain glass section of the slide. The slide is unframed and unmounted. No markings.
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