Description:Lantern slide showing pottery workers in the process of emptying saggars.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"Drawing. Forced draught is again employed to draw the dust away from workers. For flint dust in which the ware is fired is liable to cause disease if breathed into the lungs. Drawing means removing the ware from the saggar."