Digitisation of the Roslin Glass Slide Collection; complete!

That’s me signing out, 3460 glass plate slides later. It is hard to know where to start. Lots of images of cows, pigs, horses and sheep! I now have the satisfaction of viewing the entire collection on our online digital collections platform – Roslin Slides. Furthermore, I was glad to find out that a selection of the slides will be shown at the Towards Dolly exhibition, here on the ground floor of the main library, in July 2015. With so many rich and diverse images, the best place for them is out in the open, easily accessible to academics and members of the public. This one of the many benefits of digital collections. The images are there to be enjoyed and engaged with; an activity that is not so easy when slides are neatly stacked away on shelves in a strong room! With the latter in mind, here are just a few more of my favourite slides from the collection.

Silver Spangled Hamburghs

Silver Spangled Hamburghs

Prize Cock and Hen Ostriches, South Africa

Prize Cock and Hen Ostriches, South Africa

Professor Robert Wallace

Professor Robert Wallace

'Hiawatha', Clydesdale horse

‘Hiawatha’, Clydesdale horse

Perth Ram Sales

Perth Ram Sales

Spy Pig

Spy Pig

Jersey Collings Cow

Jersey Collings Cow

Khonds in Phulbani, Khandmal, Orissa, India

Khonds in Phulbani, Khandmal, Orissa, India

The 'Wandsworth Lion'

The ‘Wandsworth Lion’

Zebra

Zebra

John

Project Photographer

‘Science on a Plate’