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Original filename

GEOGBX9im003.tif

Title

GEOG Box 9 lantern slides

Credit

unknown

Holder

Plant Science Collections, Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford

Location

unknown

Date

03 March 15 @ 11:27

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5249x4944

Caption

PSL: "Ernst and Jules Muma" picture taken in 1896-1899, 1909 or 1913-14.

Keywords

PSL, glass, lantern slide, people, building, structure, interior, chair, newspaper, fireplace, men, reading, colonialism, colonial, colony, man, shorts, long socks, Tatler, costume

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The British Newspaper Archive, online at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [accessed 06/11/2023] has copies of the front pages of The Tatler starting in 1900. In our image, you can just make out an advert for State Express Cigarettes at the bottom of the page and the first word of a banner headline above the magazine name: "Special", possibly followed by Season or Session. The State Express Cigarette name only goes back to 1896, so that gives us an earliest possible date for the image. I looked at every front page of The Tatler between 1900 and 1919. The front covers of the magazines prior to 7 October 1903 were photo lithographs, so were not of interest. Starting on 7 October 1903 and continuing until 20 Dec 1903, the front page had the same town crier design on the left of the page that our image has. This design appears again for several months in 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and reappears in November, 1918. However the post-World War I front pages no longer have the text above the magazine name so our paper cannot be later than 1914.

During the period of interest, no paper before 22 Sept 1909 had a State Express Cigarette advert across the bottom of the page. These ran several times each year until 8 July 1914 and resumed on 20 November 1918. All the adverts from 1910 and 1911 can be discounted, as they included a logo which does not appear in our picture. There were no adverts in 1912 for this brand. There were a total of 34 adverts prior to the war, of which 6 can be discounted due to the logo, leaving 28 possible dates in my sample. None, sadly, had the same banner above the magazine name, possibly due to the production of a different front page for export editions or perhaps our image dates to the period from brand launch to 1900.

By process of elimination, that means the picture can date to 1896-1899, 1909 or 1913-14. These dates certainly would fit well with the idea that they are employed in the colonial forestry service. The Imperial Forestry Institute at Oxford only came into existence in 1924, so they would have worked for some previous organisation. - JK

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