A coloured lithographic glass lantern slide, depicting a map of British Isles River Basins.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1939
Materials
Glass, Paper, Fabric tape
Measurements
82 x 82 x 3 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521240
Summary
A coloured lithographic glass lantern slide, depicting a map of British Isles river basins. Two sheets of glass, 82 mm x 82 mm, one which has the image on one side and the other a cover glass. There is blue fabric tape binding around the edges to hold the whole slide together. Between the two glass sheets is a rectangular black paper mask with square corners and at top and bottom of this mask there are white paper strips printed in black ink with the following: At the top: "The Diagram Series" and top right "Copyright". At the bottom: "Messrs. Dickinson & Andrews, 27 Victoria Road, Clapham Common, SW, and G. Philip & Son, London and Liverpool". In the top right within the slide, is the key and the title "British Isles River Basins". See General Note re. dates/further information.
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.