Accession No

5900

Brief Description

20 stereoscopic slides, by various publishers and makers, U.S.A., circa 1900

Origin

U.S.A.

Maker

Griffith and Griffith Rau, William H. The Universal Photo Art Company Graves, C.H. Zahner, M. H. Underwood and Underwood

Class

optical; demonstration

Earliest Date

1890

Latest Date

1910

Inscription Date

Material

paper (card, photographic paper)

Dimensions

length: 177mm width: 88mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey on or before 30/01/2003. Donated to Denny Abbey but was never accessioned into their collection.

Inscription

Description Notes

20 card slides, each carrying twin photographic images, for use with a stereoscopic viewer (stereographoscope)

5900.1 “Daisy Days”
5900.2 “Johnie's Pets”

(The following five slides are part of a ‘wedding' set)
5900.3 “Decorating for the Wedding” (copyrighted 1897)
5900.4 “Dressing the Bride”
5900.5 “Saying Grace”
5900.6 “A Toast to the Bride”
5900.7 “We Know Who He Is”

5900.8 “Cutting Sugar Cane”
5900.9 “Loading Sugar Cane for the Mills”
5900.10 “S.S. City of Sydney, San Francisco to Manilla”
5900.11 “Cotton is King. A Plantation Scene”
5900.12 “Love in a Tub”
5900.13 “Garden of Gethsemane. Jerusalem”
5900.14 “The Children’s Pets” (very dirty)
5900.15 “Texas Quail”
5900.16 “The way Britain's Bravest charge the Kopjes-Boer War South-Africa”
5900.17 “ Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting from behind redoubt at Honey Nest Kloof (Feb 16) South Africa” (copyrighted 1900)
5900.18 No text
5900.19 “Rose Corridor. Welbeck Abbey”
5900.20 “Tower Bridge Opening”

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