Formosa Camp
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1930
Materials
Glass, Fabric tape
Measurements
85 x 169 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521119.1
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide. The scene is Formosa Camp, British Columbia, Canada, showing a view across Downton lake, with semi wooded hills leading up to the snow covered peak of Mt Penrose. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a thin glass panel with a black fabric tape border; on the centre top edge of the border is handwritten "1906" and on the bottom left corner "Formosa Camp * Mt Penrose"
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