"Invitation", "When the Chestnuts Bloom" and "Promise of Life" lantern slides.

As a collection, the theme is predominantly couples courting, 'lovers'. "Invitation" contains 3 slides of a woman in a pink dress being shown around a garden with a young man, a photograph from life models, hand tinted. All slides feature the same couple. "When the Chestnuts Bloom" again, features couples walking around the grounds of a stately house or garden, hand-tinted photographs taken from life models. One of the slides in this series, labelled 'Doreen', featuring a couple walking along a country path, is made by E.G. Wood, a British lantern and slide manufacturer and supplier. The firm was founded in 1854 and ceased trading in or after 1939. The date of foundation is the date Edward George Wood left the partnership of Horne, Thornthwaite & Wood (he later returned). The business continued to trade as E.G. Wood long after the death of Wood himself. The optical side of the business appears to have ceased or been sold in about 1933, after the death of Fred Horsey, with the remaining business being in photography and radio supply. "Promise of Life" consist of a Bamford black and white photographic slide of a man/gardener in bowler hat planting a rose bush, a staged scene. A second black and white slide shows a woman standing next to the rose bush, picking the flowers with a basket. The third slide is a hand-tinted version of the photograph of the woman standing next to the rose bush, picking and collecting flowers. Circa 1910. Bamforth produced this set of lantern slides after a song by Clifton Bingham and Frederic H. Cowen, The Promise of Life (London: Boosey & Co., 1893). This was a second set from the series, released in 1910, originally from a set of 12 slides. This series was based on a Methodist song, and would have been used by missionaries and vicars at church and Sunday school lantern lectures.