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Box of 73 Lantern Slides of Botanical Subjects: Ashmolean Natural History Society Box B

Inventory Number 11576


Item type
Object
Provenance
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
Primary inscriptions
Top of box: 'Ashmolean Nat. Hist. Soc. B'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11576

Description

Wooden fitted box. Contains 73 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides, including a sequence (B1-B29) taken in Tenerife (1900 and 1902), and photographs by L. J. Veley, A. H. Hamm (1905), and F. A. Bellamy; also one without an ANHS number by G. W. W. Many of the slides show images of plants including the 'Largest tree in the world (Mexico).