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Visual Culture Slides

In the early days of the Amber Collective, members took on paid work for colleges and broadcasters, and generated businesses, sharing the income amongst the group to allow them take their artistic practice forward. In 1972 Amber launched the Lambton Visual Aids slide library, producing sets of transparencies for Higher Education.

Cake Decoration

Visual Culture

A selection of weird and wonderful illustrations from MODERN DECORATIVE ART IN CONFECTIONARY by A. Heckmann, Germany 1925. Some amazing examples of decorative cakes and bon bons.
Cake Decoration II

Visual Culture

A selection of weird and wonderful illustrations from MODERN DECORATIVE ART IN CONFECTIONARY by A. Heckmann, Germany 1925. Some amazing examples of decorative cakes and bon bons.
Car Adverts, 1923-27

Visual Culture

A selection of car advertisements featuring fifteen different makes, taken from ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, 1923-27.
Car Adverts, 1928-31

Visual Culture

A selection of car advertisements, including many magnificent examples of the genre, taken from LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS, 1928 and 1929. This period may well become known as the Golden Age of English car advertising.
Charles Robinson

Visual Culture

A selection of illustrations from MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES, Collins’ Cleartype Press, c 1928; THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodson Burnett, Heinemann, 1911, and from OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN by Agnes and Egerton Castle, Heinemann, 1914, 24 colour slides. Charles Robinson (1870-1937). Prolific illustrator and one of the famous Robinson brothers.
Churches of Pickering

Visual Culture

Parish Churches of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire. A selection of architectural studies and details from St Martin’s, Seamer; St Matthew’s, Hutton Buscel; All Saints’, Thorpe Bassett; and All Saints’, Brompton-by-Sawdon. Photographed c 1980.
Cinemas

Visual Culture

A photographic record of Lancashire’s local cinemas in 1979, documenting their architecture, decline, and place in everyday life.
Cooking Equipment I

Visual Culture

A selection of iron stoves and ranges, from portable cooking ranges to enormous kitchen ranges (‘suitable for public institutions, mansions, asylums’) taken from the catalogue of Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Larbert, Scotland, c 1910.
Cooking Equipment III

Visual Culture

A selection of iron stoves and ranges, from portable cooking ranges (ships' hearths, galley ranges and cabin stoves) to enormous kitchen ranges ('suitable for public institutions, mansions, asylums'). Taken from the catalogue of Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Larbert, Scotland, c 1910.