Summary

Black and white lantern slide, featuring an oblique view of several men in a ship, which seems to have wreckage and scattered boxes or blocks all throughout it. This would have been taken circa 1930s. It is thought that the Kodak Museum may have held the item in its collection.

This image is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.

Description of Content

High angle view into a ship. One man is seated on the stairs and another two stand on some wreckage in the centre of frame, one looking at the camera and the other away. Railings and rope visible in foreground.

Physical Description

Standard square(3¼ x 3¼ inch square) lantern slide of a black and white photographic image. It comprises of one pane of clear glass which bears the emulsion and the image and a second pane of clear glass to protect the image. There is a black paper window mount between the two panes of glass, framing the image.The two panes are sealed with black paper edge-binding strips. The slide is labeled 'C'.

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