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Title: Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1890-approximately 1920
Collection Number: photCL 519
Extent:
84 photographs in 2 boxes : lantern slides ; 8 x 10 cm. (3 x 4 in.)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 84 lantern slides from various photographers and publishers depicting images of Switzerland, England,
Mexico, Washington D.C., and New England, as well
as some portraits and scenes. Thirty-two of the slides were made by the Art and Travel Company based in Chicago.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on March 20, 2015.
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[Identification of item], Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance unknown, in library as of 2012.
This collection contains 84 lantern slides from various photographers and publishers depicting images of Switzerland, England,
Mexico, Washington D.C., and New England, as well
as some portraits and scenes. Thirty-two of the slides were made by the Art and Travel Company based in Chicago.
The slides includes images of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the rural scenery of New England; murals in
the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institute; the Washington Monument;
the United States Capitol building; the Liberty Bell; an Eskimo mother and her child; gardens; portraits of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Eliza Allen Clark, W. C. Bryant, and James Whitcomb Riley;
two Christmas themed scenes; and working men of African and Chinese descent.
Identified photographers and/or publishers represented in this collection include the McIntosh Stereopticon Company; Samuel
Townsend; L. Manasse; F. Jay Haynes; Max Platz; B. L. Singley; Hawley C. White; and Underwood & Underwood.
The lantern slides are arranged according to the depicted geographic region.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
African American men--Photographs.
Harvard University--Photographs.
Inuit--Photographs.
Liberty Bell--Photographs.
Library of Congress--Photographs.
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--Photographs.
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)--Photographs.
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878--Photographs.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Photographs.
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916--Photographs.
Cambridge (Mass.)--Photographs.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Photographs.
England--Photographs.
Mexico--Photographs.
New England--Photographs.
Switzerland--Photographs.
Yellowstone National Park--Photographs.
Yosemite--Photographs.
Washington (D.C.)--Photographs.
Lantern slides.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Art and Travel Company, publisher.
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921, photographer.
McIntosh Stereopticon Co., publisher.
Manasse, L., photographer.
Platz, Max, photographer.
Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd), photographer.
Townsend, Samuel (Photographer), photographer.
White, Hawley C., photographer.
Underwood & Underwood, publisher.