A cardboard box for lantern slides.
Category
Photographs
Date
1920 - 1935
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
90 x 90 x 23 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525672.2
Summary
A cardboard box for lantern slides. The box has a base and separate lid, both covered in glossy red paper. There are curved finger cutaway slots on two sides of the lid. A label identifies its original use for 'Paget Prize Plate Co., Watford, England' A brown paper label has been affixed over the top of the original box label and has the following text handwritten in black ink: 'A E Boniface, 90 Westway, Shepherds Bush, W12'. Below this is handwritten in pencil: 'Room B73'.
Provenance
Donated to The Fox Talbot Museum by Martin H Boniface