Overview of the Collection
Access
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Overview of the Collection
Title: Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1890-approximately 1930
Collection Number: photCL 518
Extent:
71 photographs in 3 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 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery,
and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales
including Canada and England.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on March 20, 2015.
Access
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Provenance
Provenance unknown, in library as of 2012.
Scope and Content
This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children,
scenery,
and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales
including Canada and England.
Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; the Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland
Freemasons; the steamship “Parisian” in Liverpool, England;
the Palmdale, California, train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin’s Ranch in Arcadia, California.
Photographers are not identified.
Arrangement
The lantern slides are not arranged according to any organizational schema.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias Jackson, 1828-1909--Homes and haunts--Photographs.
Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara--Photographs.
Freemasons--Maryland--History--Photographs
Hollister Ranch (Calif.)--Photographs.
Landscapes--Photographs.
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--Photographs.
Railroad stations--California--Palmdale--Photographs.
Arcadia (Calif.)--Photographs.
Palmdale (Calif.)--Photographs.
Québec (Québec)--Photographs.
Santa Barbara (Calif.)--Photographs.
Forms/Genres
Lantern slides.
Photographs.