THE FORTUNE TELLER CHINA C1920 ANTIQUE Magic Lantern Slide PHOTO SHANGHAI ? for Sale

THE FORTUNE TELLER CHINA C1920 ANTIQUE Magic Lantern Slide PHOTO SHANGHAI ? For Sale

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THE FORTUNE TELLER CHINA C1920 ANTIQUE Magic Lantern Slide PHOTO SHANGHAI ?:
$125.79

THE FORTUNE TELLER CHINA C1920 ANTIQUE Magic Lantern Slide PHOTO SHANGHAI ?

Provenance: From theestate of William Arthur Blackburn Leach.DOB: 2nd Jan 1872. Leach was born inNorwich where he attended a local grammar school, later becoming an apprenticecarpenter and engineer. In 1902 after he had qualified, he went to China where heobtained a position in the Public Works Department of the Shanghai MunicipalCouncil. He spent his working life in Shanghai until he left in 1926. During histime in China he held interests in a Christian Mission school and helped tosupport street children. He seized every opportunity to visit other parts ofChina and took thousands of photographs. He purchased widely on his travels,particularly woodcarvings, bronzes, traditional kimonos, paintings andporcelain. He treasured silver items and bought much to take home. He travelledhome at least four times during his stay in China and these return visits wereround-the-world trips in which he travelled through and visited Europe, Russia,the Middle East, Egypt and The Holy Land, the Far East, Canada and USA. On hisreturn to the UK he lived in Northampton where he was a lay preacher and alocal councillor. He gave a great many talks on his experiences in China andthe many other Countries he had visited. He died in 1962.

Magic lantern slides were able to be enlarged using a lantern as a projector ( much like 35mm slides ) and William is likely to have selected his more interesting images to use in his talks about China.

Lantern slides as a photographic medium in my opionion produce one of the finest photograpic images and as a result of the way they are produced images stay well preserved compared to other photographic mediums as a result of being protected behind glass.

This slide is numbered: 915

Title: \" The fortune teller \"

Ref L587 CAB49 23
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