Barrels awaiting loading with square rigged ship and steam ship.
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.8
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer, depicting wooden barells awaiting loading. The barrels bear a logo of a large S with other illegible writing on the ends.In the foreground inspecting the barrels is a uniformed man. In the backgroiund is a square rigged sailing ship, a steam ship and a loading crane. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a clear glass section. 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