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Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 3)

We stumbled upon fascinating facets of lantern slide creation, assembly and ageing processes during digitisation of the William Morris collection. Use of forensic resolutions, true colour and high bit depths in the capture process (2400ppi true optical/RGB 48bit) allowed us to pick out what we think are some singularly remarkable hand painted slides (slides that [...]

Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 2)

Here are a few more details of our work with the William Morris lantern slide collection that we thought might be of interest. The Maypole Dairy Cheese box: The box pictured here (in which the lantern slides were originally stored since the late 19th century) is an historical artefact in itself that will be preserved [...]

Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 1)

William Morris Lantern Slide © 2008 The William Morris Society, All rights reserved. Over the coming week we’ll be working with the William Morris Society to digitise their unique collection of lantern slides. Digitising the slides will finally help to open up their access to a wider audience, who may then be able to help [...]