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The lantern slides are of photographs taken or collected by Robert Chalmers, father of the depositor, David Chalmers. Robert Chalmers' wife, Christina Macdonald McQueen, daughter of Donald McQueen and his wife Marion McQueen, was a native of St Kilda. Robert and Christina Chalmers married in 1912; she died in 1959. Robert Chalmers would apparently use the slides for public talks. Some are iconic images taken by George Washington Wilson in 1886 or by the wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton who visited the island in 1896. |