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Photographic Slide of Tract 'Drunkeness', English, c. 1880

Inventory Number 47839


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.47839

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Eric Gordon
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Physical material
Wood
Glass
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 11mm Width: 180mm Depth: 101mm Weight: 113g
Inventory No
47839
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 eleven tracts, biblical texts and hymns, but not a series. In chest.

The slide shows the lyrics to a song called "Drunkenness".