Coloured glass slides

Component identifier:

Series 18

Content Summary:

A group of 230 glass slides of images of the Solomon Islands dating from the early 1900s. The slides were created in the 1920s when Northcote Deck sent photographs to T.W. Cameron, a slide specialist at 430 Bourke St, Melbourne, for processing into coloured 'magic lantern' slides. Northcote Deck used these slides for deputation work in Australia, England and Canada for a period of thirty years until his death in Canada in 1959. Descriptions were compiled by Patricia Braga and are derived from the following sources: Northcote Deck's labels on the slide (N. Deck); Gordon Griffiths, son of the General Secretary of the SSEM, Ken Griffths (GG); All His Benefits: The Youngs and Decks in Australia, Stuart Braga, 2013 (AHB); Not in Vain, the magazine of the South Sea Evangelical Mission (NIV); Pearls from the Pacific by FSH Young, 1925 (Pearls); and Making Mala : Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s-1930s, Clive Moore. Some of these slides are duplicated in the group of black and white glass slides in Series 19. Note: because of the fragility of the glass slides, they are not available for reference. However, box 7/item 234 of this series comprises a folder containing a copy of each of the glass slides which can be accessed for research purposes.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from Northcote Deck's son, Dr John Deck. The transfer to the National Library of Australia was facilitated by Patricia Braga, second cousin of Dr Deck, both being descendants of Henry Young.

Subjects:

Health
Theology
History
Geography

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