Summary

Colour glass lantern slide of a photographs of two male heads. Made by T.W. Cameron, Melbourne, circa 1930s-1940s.

One of a set of over 420 lantern slides, used by lecturer Walter S. Binks, a popular psychology and vocational guidance lecturer based in Melbourne, Victoria. Binks gave lectures throughout Australia in the 1930s and 1940s. Binks advertised his lectures as associated with the Australasian Opportunity League or Universal Opportunity League. Binks used the slides to suggest relationships between physiognomy and personality.

Binks reproduced these two portraits in his book, The Golden Key, or The New Science of Analysing Character (Melbourne, 1923), as examples of a convex and concave profile. The images are labelled 'Which will make the better hustling sales-manager, which the better author. If you were selling [to]these men, which would you give facts and figures, and which reasons and theories? Which would you close first call, and which would you give plenty of time to think the matter over?' Binks believed that the man on the left was the 'sales manager, facts and figures, close first call', the man on the right the 'author, reasons and theories, give him time to think the matter over'.

Purchased by the donor at an opportunity shop. The collection was stored in three wooden trays (two compartments in each tray), and 95 slides stored separately. Many of the slides were produced in Melbourne from images and cuttings presumably supplied by Binks.

Description of Content

Image is of two male portraits. One man is clean shaven and the other has a moustache.

Physical Description

Standard format (3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch square) lantern slide.

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