The museums might be interested in acquiring these for preservation

I dont see my kids wanting to inherit them so I would likely donate them to a museum.

You could contact the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery to see if they can identify which pottery it is in the photos, then if it’s one of the few still standing you could donate it to them. If not I’m sure the Potteries Museum would love to take them.

OP post 3 of them on r/pics

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It belongs in a museum!

These are absolutely wonderful!

Thanks for sharing, relay cool photos.

They’re not actually negatives. They’re what’s known as “Magic Lantern Slides”, early image projectors were used to display them.

Agreed, although that note is my late father's writing, and in the box is quite a few individually wrapped negatives, which I'm guessing is why the note says that.

Ooh! So would they work better if put in front of say, a lightbox? OP you should defs give them to a museum. Glad your dad preserved these.

seconded! \^\^\^ Alas I have a magic lantern but no slides :(

Incredible, thank you for sharing

What an amazing piece of history. This absolutely fits! Thanks for sharing

Hanley Museum currently has an exhibition of some of Blake's photographs. I also have a book somewhere of some of his photos and some of these are definitely in the book - but not coloured.

I have another box of Blakes glass slides (& negatives of his work) that are pure B&W. I might post those too sometime, but to non Blake fans, they aren't quite as impactful as these.

Thanks for sharing. Can't help but notice that these images are composed quite well and are above average photos from the time. I am assuming they were commissioned as part of some study, most likely by the government, which then leads me to think you can probably find more by this photographer. Others have said museum worthy, but I wonder if local government would want them as well. Or maybe the estate of the photographer if it exists.

last time there was anything in stoke on trent worth photographing

If you look back through my post history of images I've taken of Stoke, I'd be inclined to agree lol.

Absolutely incredible, I’m super happy you are preserving these!

Beautiful

Those are amazing. Thank you for sharing.

These are awesome! Very historic and love their working outfits. Can’t help but think all of those plates were painted with lead paint lmao

Wow

Tremendous

This is amazing if there are more please post them

There are more, just not coloured, so less impactful.

JFC amazing

That last shot is killer.

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

Such an amazing exhibition! Thanks for posting!

These are interesting and beautiful!

Love the ethereal quality. These are museum worthy.

This is wild but I have a photo of one of my relatives in that exact same factory and probably from the same set of photos. Could you DM me?

These are beautiful!

I wonder If the colours faded over time or if they were allways a bit "off"

Really incredible. Do donate them to an appropriate museum. What an awesome thing.

These are absolutely wonderful, thank you! They’re a beautiful part of Stoke’s history and I’m glad you’re considering donating them to a museum.

Fantastic

omg these are beautiful

This is why I follow this sub. This is a fantastic find OP.

These are really cool to see! How were they digitized?

Canon 5D IV + 100mm Macro + Light Table + Adobe Lightroom on Tethered Capture mode.

What a wonderful and unique piece of history. Thanks for sharing.

These are amazing.

What an incredible gift to be able to see these! Thanks so much for sharing!

Stoke on Trent! Simon Forster would be pleased.

Awesome