Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Michelle Sanchez.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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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.
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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.
Item 1
[Farmers with threshing machine]
Item 3
[Two men standing. Mules hitched to farming machine]
Item 4
[Hitching mules up to farming equipment]
Item 5
[Men with farming equipment]
Item 8
[Horses pulling farming equipment]
Item 10
[Two men with a tree sapling]
Item 13
[Four girls riding goats]
Item 14
[Girl sitting on top a cannon]
Item 15
[Girl in park with cannon]
Item 17
[Champlain Monument. Quebec, Canada]
Item 25
[Ocean and rocks. California]
Item 26
[Dirt road with palm and pine trees]
Item 28
[Two men and a women in a tent]
Item 29
[Three men, two women in supply shed]
Item 30
[Statues of crucifixion scene]
Item 32
[Letter to the Maryland Free Masons. 1798]
Item 35
[Three men at a construction site(?)]
Item 37
[Workers at shipping docks]
Item 38
The Steamship “Parisian” in the Graving Dock. Liverpool [England]
Item 39
Aberdeen Bar at High Water [Sailing ships] [Scotland]
Item 40
Interior South Transept [of cathedral]. Kilwining [Scotland].
Item 45
[Men outside railroad station]
Item 46
[Palmdale, California, train station]
Item 47
[Palmdale, California, train station] [Variant of 46]
Item 48
[Map of route from Palmdale to Los Angeles, California]
Item 50
[Group of men standing around]
Item 51
[Three people looking at wall]
Item 55
[Two men in horse-drawn cart]
Item 56
[Man in a horse and buggy]
Item 57
[Horse and buggy by a tree]
Item 58
[Man and his dog in a creek]
Item 59
[Santa Barbara earthquake. 1925]
Item 62
[Greek god statue on street corner] [Damaged]
Item 63
[Illegible caption] [Dirt road flanked by townhouses]
Item 65
[Tents and wooden shacks]
Item 66
[Buildings by the mountains]
Item 67
[House seen through clearing in trees]
Item 69
[Lucky Baldwin’s Ranch. Santa Anita, California]
Item 70
[Self-recording thermometer]
