Asian Art Lantern Slide Collection
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Claremont Colleges. Pacific Basin Institute
2024
420 N. Harvard Avenue
Pomona, California 91711
(909) 607-8035
clark.noone@pomona.edu
https://www.pomona.edu/administration/pacific-basin-institute
Title: Asian Art Lantern Slide Collection
Dates: circa 1900-1930
Collection Number: PBI.006
Creator/Collector:
Department of History, Pomona College
Extent: 35 boxes (12 linear feet), approximately 2,240 slides
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Pacific Basin Institute
Pomona, California 91711
Abstract: This collection of 2,240 black-and-white glass lantern slides features images of Asian art, architecture, monuments, maps,
and landscapes from the early twentieth century. Countries represented include China, Japan, Korea, and India. The slide collection
was created by the Pomona College Department of History.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Permission to publish must be obtained from the Pacific Basin Institute Archive.
[Identification of item]. Asian Art Lantern Slide Collection . Collection Number: PBI.006. Claremont Colleges. Pacific Basin
Institute
Material was donated to the Pacific Basin Institute by the Pomona College History Department.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of 2,240 black-and-white glass lantern slides features images of notable Asian art, architecture, monuments,
and landscapes from the early twentieth century. Countries represented include China, Japan, Korea, and India. The collection
also includes a number of art-historical images of Greece and Asia Minor. The collection was amassed by the Department of
History at Pomona College, most likely for lectures on art history. The collection also includes a box of notecards with additional
descriptions of each lantern slide.
Lantern slides--History
Asia--Art and Architecture
Pacific Basin Institute
Pomona College
Glass lantern slides