Ref NoGB172 LP/4/2/2/3/9
TitleCzechoslovakia
DescriptionSlides relating to Czechoslovakia including 'General slides' (i-ciii) showing photographs of vegetation (including spruce forests), Strbské pleso, Rysy ridge, Kesmark, local people (some in traditional dress), industry (including farming, wood cutting and forestry, embroidery, road making, and plastering), a gypsy village, local produce, Strba, a musical party, tourists at Starý Smokovec, Vazec, Levoca, churches, streets, Bratislava (including prominent buildings, and the market), Brno (including the market, and main square), Mococha cave, and Poprad; a drawing of High Tatra; and plans of Stola village, and arable strips in Vazec. The 'Telgart section' (civ-cxliii) includes maps of the Austrian empire, and Telgart; and photographs of cultivated land, a trigonometric station, houses, streets, farming, the gorge at Cervená skála, timber cutting, local people (some in traditional dress), an old woman spinning wool, and the interior of a cave. The 'Kukleny section' (cxliv-cli) includes photographs of a hay wagon, a river, local people, an orchard, a thatched cottage, a street, and a power station. There are also slides which show drawings of John Huss, a Bohemian wedding, and an old Bohemian piper; photographs of Prague, the Sea Eye Lake, local people (some in traditional costume), farming, Liptovský Svätý Mikulás, Rozemberk Castle, Zilina, the Poprad River and Lake, houses (interior and exterior), Trencín, Olomouc, Sokol festivities, Karluv Tyn Castle, churches, Tatra Mountains, Bratislava, Kutná Hora, President Masaryk taking his oath, President Masaryk, Carlsbad mineral spring, landscape, Hornia Stubnia, Diviaky, Vleska, Haj, Stubnianske, Svaty Martin, Podebrady, a brewery, Marienbad, a portrait of Dr Benesh, St Teplice Hotel, St Martin, and Lany Castle; a map of the Czech-Slovak Republic; relief maps of Czechoslovakia; and an old plan of Prague.
Date1926 - 1941
Related MaterialThe original lists for slides i-cli are held in LP/4/4/1/3 Slides lent to Nottingham University, and are divided into 'General slides', 'Telgart section' and 'Kukleny section'; the original boxes also list the slides and are kept in boxes 3, 4 and 6. The original list for slides clii-cclxxxi is held in LP/4/4/1/1 'Catalogue of Lantern Slides presented to Keele Hall by LePlay House'.
LevelFile
Extent270 slides
Access statusOpen
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