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The box may have been intended to hold each batch of

six negatives currently awaiting conversion to micro-
photograph slides. Micro-photograph slides with
Suter’s handwritten labels, if they exist, have not
emerged at auction sales or internet sites like eBay, and
the example shown already seems unique, intended for
personal and family entertainment. In 1900 Suter
issued a Revised Catalogue of Microscopical Slides etc.,
offering no less than 512 micro-photographs. None
bearing Suter’s labels seem to turn up, and one
explanation is that micro-photographs were indeed
made by Suter from Dancer negatives, and sold with
original Dancer labels. Many labels survive among
Richard’s effects owned by a family descendant, Helen
Reed. Other family descendants may have more, or a
lot may have been thrown out down the years. What is