Magic Lantern Slide: Diamond district -- Minas Geraes -- Brazil
This slide is part of series showing the process of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa and Brazil. This image is a photograph of a book page and shows the ‘diamond district’ in Minas Geraes, Brazil, consisting of a river and river bank, with a diamond hunter on horse back. The slides originally belonged to Miss Edith Aviolet, sub-curator of the museum in the early twentieth century, who had a special interest in geology and held public lectures on this and other natural history topics.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 111/1932/15
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Diamond district -- Minas Geraes -- Brazil
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- Handwritten '111/1932.15' on top edge; 'Handwritten '111/1932.14' on top edge' on top binding strip; '111/1932.15' on label
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Year Low
- 1873
- Production Year High
- 1932
