Lantern slides: Auckland Harbour Board proposed Export Wharf presentation.

Maker
Auckland Harbour Board (estab. 1871, closed 1989)
 Production date
1920s
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Object detail

Description
Box "51-100" contains 50 lantern glass plate slides. The slides were part of an Auckland Harbour Board presentation, this one is part two of a presentation on the proposed Export Wharf. The slides show various wharf machinery, elevator trucks, electric travelling lever-balanced luffing jib cranes, pillar cranes, brownhoist ore buckets and moveable car dumpers. They also show workers who worked in highly industrialised conditions at Victorian wharves and the working conditions at the wharves and warehouses.
Accession number
2021.28.257
Museum System ID
19041
Collection type
Archives
Collection
Frank Baldwin
Classification
Lantern Slide Transparency
Maker and role
Auckland Harbour Board (estab. 1871, closed 1989): Maker
Media/Material details
A lantern slide is a gelatin silver positive image on a glass plate.
Media/Materials
Glass: 0 - Whole
Measurements
Lantern slide measurement
Measurement details
Height (mm): 80mm (1/4ft): 0 - Whole
Width: 80mm (1/4ft): 0 - Whole
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Not on display

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