Lantern slide of Bronze Turkeys

The Archives received these turkeys this week. They are part of a collection of lantern slides which were used to teach Agriculture and Science classes at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, probably in the 1920s.

The slides were rescued from destruction by Mike Mills, a teacher at BCIVS in the 1970s and were donated to the Archives this week by Mike and his wife, Sue (who also taught at the school).

There are over 200 slides in total, and co-op student Sydney Welch has taken on the task of cleaning and scanning them so that we can share them more widely. Sydney completed the scanning of the Poultry set of slides this week and they are now available through the Archives' Flickr account.

These 49 slides were produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau for use in schools. Some of the poultry slides appear to have been signed by the artists: "A.D. Schilling" and "LS". While some of the slides have suffered damage over the years, the poultry ones in particular are in very good condition.