Description:Lantern slide showing male and female pottery workers operating a casting machine. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"A Casting Machine. The machine here shown takes sixteen moulds, four being filled simultaneously. Slip is held in the tank above which contains a fan to keep the liquid stirred. Two workers attend to the machine."