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Box of 31 Lantern Slides for Lectures on Radio-Chemistry by Frederick Soddy, 1949: Box [3]

Inventory Number 63397


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Museum, Oxford, in 1974, per J. M. Edmonds.
Primary inscriptions
MS label on top of box: 'Lecture at Ditchley | March 26th 1949 | & London 15.VII.49. ...', pasted over the remains of an older label of the same kind as the older label on 13187. Unnumbered but see 13188.
Object type
Lantern slide
Dimensions
Height: 100mm Width: 383mm Depth: 110mm Weight: 2.1kg
Inventory No
63397
Accession Number
1974-3

Description

Wooden box containing 31 lecture Lantern Slides from ‘Lecture at Ditchling March 26th 1949 at London 15.VII.49’. Within the box are 2 pieces of scrunched newspaper used as padding; there is also a folded copy of the ‘Sunday Graphic, May 1, 1955’. The wooden box has hinged lid and hook fastenings to the front. There is an MS list of slides inside lid, with many alterations; plus a handwritten label stuck over the MS list.