Lyrics for "Oh that will be glory" (The Glory Song) by Charles H. Gabriel.
Category
Photographs
Date
1906 - 1918
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521256
Summary
A monochrome photolithographic glass lantern slide of the lyrics of the first two verses and chorus of the hymn "Oh that will be glory" (The Glory Song) by Charles H. Gabriel (1900). Around the lyrics are line drawings of grasses and clover. 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 narrow paper mask with rounded corners. Beneath the tape binding on the top edge of the slide is a paper label with the following printed on it: "Alexander's Revival Mission Hymns (Copyright)". [Charles McCallon Alexander (1867–1920) a native of East Tennessee, was a popular nineteenth-century gospel singer who worked the evangelistic circuit for many years.]
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.