title: 4 History in a Slide Set
abstract: History in a Slide SetThe photographic portrait that opens this chapter is part of a set of lantern slides titled The Life of Queen Victoria (1897) (Fig. 93).281It is based on a well-known photograph of the queen in three-quarter profile, clad in widow's dress and white cap, that had been taken by Alexander Bassano on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897arguably the defining moment of British imperialism.282Upon its transfer onto the glass slide, the portrait was cropped, colored, and equ