Lantern slide. Showing the obelisks of Hatshepsut and Thuthmose I at Karnak. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The obelisk of Queen Hattisu at Karnak which is of equal size to this, was quarried out and despatched and erected in seven months from the time at which the order for it was given....'. This view is similar to EC1749.
Lantern slide. Showing the guard at Aswan. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the Sudanese guard who guard the barrage. They all readily fell in for me to take their photos and naturally expected me to show it to them as soon as I had taken it, but of course that didn't come off.'
Slogan: Unity is Strength (both sides)
This was the first Trade Union Banner to appear on the picket line outside Pentonville Jail in support of the five dockers leaders imprisoned in July 1972.
Lantern slide. Showing the Collossi of Memnon on the West Bank at Thebes. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The Colossi on Memnon or the Great Statues of Thebes. They are made of sandstone. They were both monoliths originally but the northern colossos fell and was restored with sandstone blocks in the reign of Septimus Severus...'. Similar view to EC1710 and EC1735.
Lantern slide. Showing the west colonnade at the temple of Nectanebus at the south end of the Island of Philae. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The thirtyone columns here with fine capitals still support parts of the roof, decorated with vultures with spread wings and stars, while the outer wall decorated with numerous reliefs is mainly intact. Toward the north end of the Colonnade is a well preserved inscription on the wall which states that a certain Ammonius fulfilled a vow made to Isis, Serapis and other gods by presenting to them the worship of his brother and children in the Thirty-first year of Caesar Augustus. Beneath the colonnade is a passage descending to the water which was used as a Nilometer.' This is a similar view to negative EC1705 and to EC1714.
The left-hand portrait dates from when Frank was a pupil at Charterhouse aged about 15. The right-hand photograph was taken at Oxford University while he was an undergraduate at Magdalen College from 1891. He graduated during the summer of 1894 in Natural Science, specialising in Chemistry.
Isabel Frances de Winton Thomas of Glanmor (1868 – 1955). Frank’s portrait with his signature during his early years helping to manage the family firm and around the time of his betrothal to Isabel.
The pamphlet, The Miners' Conflict with the Mineowners, was written in support of the miners. John Thomas gave a lecture at the South Wales Miners' Library in 1974, as the Coalfield Project was coming to an end.
Lantern slide. Showing the Temple of Isis on the Island of Philae. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'In front of the Great Pylon are two fallen lions of pink granite which stood on pedastals of which only one still remain. This is not the Great Pylon, but is the only photograph of a Pylon of the Isis Temple that I have' This is a similar view to negative EC1706 and EC1715.
Mrs. Mary Dulcibella Thomas (née Eden) (1834 – 1909) with her second daughter Miss Dulcibel Thomas (1872-1951) outside the drawing room window at Glanmor House, Sketty, Swansea. (The Edens were trusted managers at Vivian and Sons Ltd. The site of Glanmor House is now Long Oaks Court near Myrtle Grove and Glanmor Park Road.) Mrs. Thomas was the second wife of Illtid Thomas (1812 – 89) and Isabel, their eldest daughter, was the first of their children to get married. Frank got on well with his sister-in-law Dulcie and she was a welcome guest on adventurous continental motoring trips.
