Exhortations to form good habits.
Category
Photographs
Date
1917 - 1935
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521255
Summary
A monochrome photolithographic glass lantern slide, with text encouraging good habits (abstinence from alcohol). The text reads: 'Best and Second Best We want the best work, the easiest life, the safest paths, the truest manhood None but the best will do ... How can we get it? ... By beginning now. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined ... habit is the taskmaster that will rule us all our lives ... Therefore form good habits.' Beneath this text is a logo of the I.O.R. - Independent Order of Rechabites. There is also written in the bottom right corner: 'R.H.' [R.H. refers to Robert Highet who was High Secretary of the Order from 1917 - 1935 - see general note.] 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 black paper tape binding around the edges to hold the whole slide together. Between the two glass sheets is a paper mask with square corners. Over the top edge of the slide is a paper label with handwriting on it, reading as follows: "D124. T51"
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.