Accession No
6773
Brief Description
two cabinets of glass slides (mostly plants and animals), English, mid- to late 29th Century
Origin
England
Maker
Class
natural history; demonstration
Earliest Date
1925
Latest Date
1991
Inscription Date
Material
wood; glass
Dimensions
cabinet A length 920mm, width 500mm, height 750mm; cabinet B length 1200mm, width 500mm, height 755mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Gift from Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge in 2011.
Inscription
Description Notes
2 cabinets of glass slides, English.
One wooden cabinet (A) contains 16 drawers in two columns, the other (B) contains 24 drawers in three columns. A total of 14,881 colour stereoscopic glass slides are stored in these drawers, mostly about different types of plants and animals, including flowers and butterflies.
References
Events
Description
These two large cabinets of stereoscopic slides were the collections of John Heaver Fremlin (1913-1995). Donated to the Herbarium of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge in 1991, the Whipple Museum received them along with Wh. 6774 (four cabinets of botanical glass slides) in 2011.
As well as being a nuclear physicist, John Fremlin was a naturalist who had a keen interest in stereoscopic photography. He created these stereoscopic slides and gave them to Peter Derek Sell, the then Assistant Curator of the Herbarium.
Stereoscopic photography overlays two identical images, with one slightly out of focus, to create an illusion of depth.
23/02/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 23/02/2023
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