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GEOGbx53im002.tif

Title

GEOG Box 53 lantern slides

Credit

George William Palmer

Holder

Geography Collections, Social Sciences Library, University of Oxford

Location

Italy, Aosta Valley, Mont Blanc Massif

Date

09 April 15 @ 09:52

Image size

4984x3648

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AGEOG: Italy: "112" "380 112" "2" "G.W." View from the west end of Aosta looking southwest up the valley. A = Cogne Valley, B = road to Little St Bernard & Courmayeur, C = Ruitor

Keywords

Geography, glass, lantern slide, mountain, valley, glacier, snow, glaciology, landscape

per email from Sue Bird 13/12/2020: "I think I've just had a bit of a break through with these 'unidentified slides' from Alpine Landforms

Some of them have the initials GWP & I rather think this refers to G.W. Palmer (probably a George William born in Dover in 1869 who was a schoolmaster in Clifton, Bristol in 1901)

I attach an article* written by G.W. Palmer where he enumerates a set of 38 slides about the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Massif.

The entry for slide no. 10 seems to correlate exactly with 50685 which as well as being labelled '380.120' is also labelled '10' !!!!!"

*see: PALMER, G. W. “THE DORA BALTEA, ESPECIALLY THE ITALIAN SIDE OF THE MASSIF OF MONT BLANC.” The Geographical Teacher, vol. 5, no. 1, 1909, pp. 38–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40556075. Accessed 14 Dec. 2020.

per email from Sue Bird 14/12/2020: "I now believe I have located him in the 1911 census - George William Palmer, age 41 born Dover, Teacher, Public School

He appears to have married a Helen Elizabeth Lamb in Oct-Dec 1913 in the City of London & died 5th Oct 1919 aged 49 at 2, The Avenue, Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Surrey - this also fits in with some G.W. Palmer photographs in the B.A.A.S. Geological Photographs set where his address is Christ's Hospital."
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