Item Reference: 006633
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 68: “Map showing German advance into Russia”
Date: 1914-1918
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D81_006633 First World War Lantern Slide #22
Tag: 1910-1920
D81_006634 First World War Lantern Slide #23
Item Reference: 006634
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 71: A map of the “line before Allied offensive July 18th 1918”, Western Front
Date: 1914-1918
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D18_002223 Butcher’s Camera Catalogue and Price List
Item Reference: 002223
Category: Photography
Format: Ephemera
Description: Seven yellow and six white price lists and two blue catalogues of Butcher and Sons Ltd. products
Date: 1902 and 1914-15
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D18_001713 Photograph Frame
Item Reference: 001713
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Red photograph frame with decorative embossing and circular illustration of four flags, respectively of Russia, England, Romania, and France
Date: c. 1910s
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D18_001718 Studio Photographs 3
Item Reference: 001718
Category: Photography
Format: Photograph
Description: Three postcards with photographs, including photograph of a woman, family photo from Christmas 1913, and photo of three children, John, Violet and Billie from Christmas 1923
Date: c. 1910s-20s
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C39_006600 Bairnsfather Trench Art Postcards
Item Reference: 006600
Category: First World War
Format: Postcard
Description: 5 Postcards featuring art by Bruce Bairnsfather including his most famous character ‘Old Bill’. All feature an SRD Rum Jar.
Date: 1914-1918
Further Information: All feature an SRD Rum Jar, one of which we have in the collection.
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C39_006599 Lewisham Military Hospital Decorative Sign
Item Reference: 006599
Category: First World War
Format: Artefact
Description: A 2-panel decorative sign for Lewisham London Military Hospital, with carved words on the reverse.
Date: 1914-1918
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C39_001510 SRD Rum Jar
Item Reference: 001510
Category: First World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Earthenware rum jar marked ‘SRD’ for Supply Reserve Depot, though many soldiers joked it stood for ‘soon runs dry’
Date: 1914-1918
Further Information: Label on the base suggests it was produced in Chesterfield, though there was a large Supply Reserve Depot in Deptford Dockyard commandeered for military use at the outbreak of the Great War. It remained a large military supply depot until 1984, when the dockyard shut and became Convoys Wharf.
Links: Info under section ‘Supply Reserve Depot’, see postcards featuring trench art of the ubiquitous rum jar.
D19_001739 Kodak Vest Pocket Camera #2
Item Reference: 001739
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Kodak vest pocket camera with ball bearing shutter, made in Rochester N.Y, U.S.A. Encased with notes entailing maximum photo (8) and size (127). Orange lens, pull-out bellows, patented 1910.
Date: c. 1910
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D19_001738 Kodak Vest Pocket Camera #1
Item Reference: 001738
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Kodak vest pocket camera with ball bearing shutter, made in Toronto, Canada (1916) orange lens, adjustable viewing dial and pull-out bellows.
Autograph film no.A-127.
Date: c.1916
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