Lantern slides of stone decay

• Reference:GB 243 D-HE7/3/6/5
• Dates of Creation:1904 - 1928
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  45 items Photographic material (incl slides etc)

• Scope and Content

  These slides have captions in a number of different formats so may not have been made at the same time. They are of: Set 1 1904 - Belmont Street; St John's United Freed Church, George Street, west side; wall at Western Infirmary; prison wall, High Street; eugenics class room buildings east - university. Set 2 1904: stone decay, cornice City Chambers; stone decay city Chambers capitals and dentils; stone decay, Sanitary Chambers. Set 3 1904 - stone decay, capital, City Chambers; stone decay Scott Monument. Set 4 - cell samples taken from various buildings, 1926-1927: St German's eruption under surface; Woodside under west stairs scaling plaster; Sanitary Chambers lime gelatine; Killearn; Woodside outside - 19 days; weeping fungus; Woodside mortar between ashlar blocks; Sanitary Chambers balcony - lime under overhang and bracket; Sanitary Chambers balcony - black surface bracket; Carlisle Cathedral sooty; Carlisle freshly exposed decaying surface. Set 5 1927-1928- Woodside exhibition of plaster under stairs; St German's painted rendered surface; St Matthews Church - gable of session house, decayed surface stripped Mr Keppie; Giffnock Quarry rockface; Giffnock quarry close up to ulcerated face; Woodside west wall extension from mortar to ashlar course near ground exfoliating; Sanitary Chambers; Woodside church under gallery stair; Woodside Church vestibule; new municipal buildings, John Street; Killearn Church decay in course above arch extending joints and passing along moulding; Killearn church buttress - decay extending from soft to hard stone; Woodside Church west wall - scaling stone, sloping course, decay extending from mortar to stone. Set 6 from a box labelled 'Glasgow Public Health Laboratory Dry Rot': section of dry rot fungus (x250); and spores of dry rot fungus (x250). Five single images: Woodside chancel east; Burnbank; and three uncaptioned including one of Hillhead Congregational Church.

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• Note

  In four folders.

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