Glass lantern slides of 'Our Colonies - Australia', ca 1910 by W. Butcher & Sons
Glass lantern slides of 'Our Colonies - Australia', ca 1910 by W. Butcher & Sons
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Author / Creator
Date
ca 1910
Call Numbers
SLIDES 305
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Formats
Pictures, Photographs and Objects
Physical Description
Contents
8 slides (1 box) - 8.3 x 8.3 cm. in original cardboard box, 9.1 x 9.1 x 3.4 cm. - coloured glass lantern, bound around edge with black paper tape
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
SLIDES
8 individual coloured slides numbered 17 to 24 in original box 9.1 x 9.1 x 3.4 cm.
Primus Junior Lecturers’ Series, series no. 742 of series B:
17 Government House, Melbourne
18 Sydney harbour
19 Gold mining, Past and Present
20 Sheep Shearing
21 Richmond River, N.S.Wales
22 In the Bush...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Glass lantern slides of 'Our Colonies - Australia', ca 1910 by W. Butcher & Sons
Variant title
Also known as: Primus Junior Lecturers' Series
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A copy of the original lecture notes for ‘Our Colonies, Australia’ is held on Mitchell file ML 14/15.
References for lantern slide comparison with photographs:
17 Government House, Melbourne
Compared with Government House Melbourne from Australian Pictures by Howard Willoughby of the Melbourne Argus, 1886, p.37
18 Sydney H...
Date note
Examination of the images shows they were taken from known photographs and engravings made between 1876 and 1904. The earliest is from the Illustrated London News 1876 and the latest from a Melvin Vaniman panorama of Sydney in 1904.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, April 2014
Administrative / Biographical history
‘Our Colonies, Australia’ were part of the Primus Junior Lecturers’ Series. They were produced by the London firm of W. Butcher & Sons. ca 1910. The slides themselves were produced by a chromolithographic process and sold as a set of eight in a cardboard box for 2/- per set. The series was divided into series A, B, and C.
Series A was descri...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SLIDES 305
Record Identifier
9AL4OQjY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9AL4OQjY
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Reference code
1133803
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