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Glass slides produced by William Wilton

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William Wilton

c. 1915 - 1925

Overview

Seventy nine glass slides created by William Wilton 1910-1925. Slides are of various subjects including farming, railway fettlers at work, family on picnics at South Beach and camping at Cliff Head, and Irwin River in flood at Strawberry.

Historical information

William Wilton was a farmer at Walkaway and then was a railway ganger on the Midland Railway at Irwin and Strawberry for 21 years. He married Edith in 1915, and they lived at Port Denison from 1948. His glass slides show the everyday life of working people in a remote country setting. IDHS also owns the timber frames for printing postcards and a set of glass and metal scales used by William Wilton to process and print images from his glass slides produced by his Kodak Premo No 4 camera.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-8-IROB3144

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Environment
Photography
Social History

Material

Glass

Contextual Information

This collection of slides is significant because it was produced by a railway worker who lived remotely and yet who managed to chronicle working and family lives of people in the Irwin. The slides are significant because they illustrate early photographic techniques, and the lives of the Wilton family at that period.

Place made

Irwin
Western Australia
Australia

Year

c. 1915 - 1925

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative