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Photographic Slide of Bethlehem? from the Land, by Newton & Co., London, c. 1880

Inventory Number 83321


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.83321

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Eric Gordon
Primary inscriptions
Triangular printed label: 'MAKERS/NEWTON & Co./3, FLEET ST. LONDON.'
Physical material
Wood
Glass
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 11mm Width: 180mm Depth: 103mm Weight: 109g
Inventory No
83321
Accession Number
1979-2

Description

Mahogany frame with paper label of William Catlin, Dissolving View Apparatus, Lantern and Slide Warehouse, (New and Second-hand), 17, Claremont Square, Pentonville, London. One of a Group of sixteen slides of Old and New Testament Subjects, of which three are real photographic of the Holy Land by Newton & Co. In chest.

The slide shows the image of Bethlehem.