Slide set: From the Yangtze to the Irrawaddy (lecture: Royal Geographical Society, at least 43 slides, 1923)

Set details Slide listing

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

[Slides 1-27]

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[Group of people and animals at encampment]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[Slides 28-43]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[Man or woman standing by wooden building]

[31]

[Group of people sitting on hillside near settlement]

[32]

[33]

[House in settlement in mountainous region]

[34]

[35]

[Bridge over river, with horses drinking]

[36]

[Group of people walking up hill away from settlement]

[37]

[38]

[39]

[Group of loaded horses in mountainous landscape]

[40]

[Unidentified plants in mountainous landscape]

[41]

[Group of people at settlement in hilly landscape]

[42]

[43]

[Loaded horses waiting for ferry raft across river or lake]

Number of slides

at least 43

Manufacturer

Royal Geographical Society, England

Main type of image

photograph

Main usage of set

lecture

Date of first manufacture

1923

Reading or song

F. Kingdon Ward, ‘From the Yangtze to the Irrawaddy’ in Geographical Journal

Events where this set was shown

From the Yangtze to the Irrawaddy (lantern lecture, London, England, 1923)

Notes

This set of slides comprises two distinct groups, with different styles of mounting and labelling. Both are shown here in the order in which they were found in the RGS collection, which probably does not match their order of use in lectures.

Slides [1] to [27] have titles handwritten on labels, and probably correspond to Ward's lecture of 1923 (some of these images are reproduced in the Ward's accompanying Geographical Journal article). Slides [28] to [43] have no titles and may belong to another lecture which may or may not have been given by Ward. Both groups are labelled with RGS library serial number LS/507.

The Royal Geographical Society index card states:

Some confusion over this set as the RGS online catalogue entry stated there were twenty slides initially. But there are 43 slides there with the correct set number on them.

'43 slides made to illustrate a paper by F. Kingdon Ward on 'Yangtse to Irrawaddy', read 7th May 1923'.

See 'The Geographical Journal', Vol. 62, No. 1 (Jul., 1923), pp. 6-18.

*This collection originally comprised 39 slides - 19 destroyed/faded, 21st May 1951.

Collections

43 slides in Royal Geographical Society Collection

Subject keywords

Myanmar
exploration
science – geography
botany
imperialism – British Empire

Lucerna ID 3009078

Record created by Emily Hayes and Richard Crangle. Last updated 29 May 2017

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Slide set: From the Yangtze to the Irrawaddy (lecture: Royal Geographical Society, at least 43 slides, 1923)