Item MM 39783 Lantern Slide - Cattle in a Bush Landscape by Hugh Conran, Australia, circa 1910s

Summary

Black and white lantern slide depicting a cow and pitched tent within a bush landscape.

This item forms part of a collection of over 400 lantern slides and photographic negatives created by WWI veteran and amateur photographer Hugh Marcel Conran. Items within this collection illustrate everyday rural and domestic life in Australia circa 1910 - 1920.

Description of Content

Cattle and a tent amongst the woods.

Physical Description

Standard format lantern slide, consisting of two glass sheets each 3.25 x 3.25 ins (83 x 83 mm), one pane bearing a black and white image and the other pane protecting the image. Sealed with paper binding strips around the four edges of the lantern slide and internally framed with a black oval cut-out window mask.