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Glass slide from the Reverend Percy Edwards visual archive
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Title:
Glass slide from the Reverend Percy Edwards visual archive
Courtesy
Ian Edwards
This glass slide is from a series titled 'Farewell to Old England'.
This is part of an extensive collection of glass slides, equipment and manuscripts in the Edwards family for six generations. Philanthropist Fred Grimwade gifted a magic lantern to Percy Edwards in 1898. The magic lantern projected glass slides and is considered a forerunner of the film projector. Edwards’ magic lantern was manufactured in London by W Watson and Sons.
The Rev. Percy Edwards Visual Archive was donated to the NFSA by the Edwards Family of Melbourne.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.