Beet, Arthur Edgar, [?] - 1968
Person
Dates
- Existence: [?] - 1968 1968
Biography
Arthur Edgar Beet was a lecturer in fuel technology at the University of Sheffield in the first half of the twentieth century. He was an amateur local historian who developed an interest in collecting lantern slides and projection equipment. He died in 1968.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Beet Lantern Slide Collection
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 22
Scope and Contents
A collection of just under 2,500 lantern slides collected by Arthur Edgar Beet, an academic in the Applied Science Department at the University of Sheffield in the first half of the 20th century.The collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including photographs of late 19th century Sheffield, illustrations of scenes from children’s tales and Bible stories, images of the Boer War and the First World War, portraits of important historical figures, and photographs of London and...
Dates:
Late 19th and early 20th century
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives