Slide set: Wild flowers (lecture: Newton & Co., 237-341 slides, in/before 1909)

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Descriptive data for this set

Alternative title

Orchids and wild flowers

Number of slides

237 minimum, 341 maximum (original set of 237, with 104 additional slides added later)

Manufacturer

Newton & Co., England

Other related organisation

in stock of Newton & Co., 1909-1913 (item ref. ABQ)

Main type of image

photograph

Main usage of set

lecture

Date of first manufacture

unknown (latest possible 1909)

Person linked to this set

photographer: HASTINGS, Somerville, F.R.C.S., M.P. (1878-1967)

Reading or song

Somerville Hastings, Orchids and wild flowers (London: Newton & Co., n.d.)

Notes

The 1909 Newton catalogue lists slides 1-237 (including an additional 8 slides marked 'a') and uses the title Wild flowers; the 1913 edition lists slides 1-333 (with the same additional slides) under the title Orchids and wild flowers.

Lucerna ID 3008481

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 25 May 2021

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Slide set: Wild flowers (lecture: Newton & Co., 237-341 slides, in/before 1909)