Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Michelle Sanchez.

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

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Overview of the Collection

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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Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Provenance unknown, in library as of 2012.

Scope and Content

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.

Arrangement

The lantern slides are arranged according to the depicted geographic region.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Subjects

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.

Forms/Genres

Lantern slides.

Photographs.

Portraits.

Contributors

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.

Container List

Box 1

Lantern slides 1-40

Europe (Slides 1-19)

Item 1

Swiss house at Treib. Lake Lucerne. [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 2

“Moonlight on lovely Lake Geneva, Switzerland” [Photograph by Hawley C. White]

Item 3

Mountainside above Villefranche

Item 4

Murren, the highest town in Switzerland

Item 5

Mountain shepherd and his flock. Switzerland. [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 6

Fountain of Rudolph IV

Item 7

Market day. Unterseen, Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 8

Lucerne, Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 9

Hotel on Rigi Kulm [Switzerland] [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 10

Portal of Cathedral. Fribourg, Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 11

[Newsboys and girl]

Item 12

Peasant costume. Thurgovia, Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 13

Church near [illegible caption] [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 14

Cliffs of the Bastei. Saxon Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 15

Ladder Pass. Switzerland. [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 16

“A Swiss village” [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 17

On the Tête-Noire Pass. Switzerland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 18

“A Swiss Village”. Bernese, Oberland [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 19

Wordsworth’s Monument. Westminster Abbey [London, England]

Mexico (Slides 20-27)

Item 20

Extracting pulque. San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 21

Maguey field. Mexico [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 22

Peon silver miners loitering on the mountainside. Zacatecas, Mexico [Photograph by B.L. Singley]

Item 23

Feast of the Candles. Mesa Grande. November 2

Item 24

Pyramid of the Moon. Mexico—San Juan Teotihuacán [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 25

Puente de Dios. Mexico [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 26

“In the market”. Queretaro, Mexico [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 27

Water carrier. City of Mexico [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

United States (Slides 28-40)

Item 28

Yellowstone. Beehive [?] Geyser [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 29

Yellowstone Park. Beehive [?] Geyser

Item 30

Cascade of Firehole River. Yellowstone [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 31

Obsidian Cliff. Yellowstone [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 32

Liberty Cap, Yellowstone [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 33

Angel Terrace. Yellowstone National Park [Photograph by B.L. Singley]

Item 34

Lone Star Geyser [Yellowstone] [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 35

“The Three Tetons” [Wyoming] [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 36

Yosemite Valley. Bridal Veil Fall [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 37

[Park ranger (?) and man looking at landscape]

Item 38

“The approaching storm, 20 miles distant.” Bright Angel Canyon. Grand Canyon, AZ [Arizona] [Photograph by Hawley C. White]

Item 39

Trail Canyon [Photograph by McIntosh Stereopticon Company]

Item 40

[Waterfall] [Damaged]

Box 2

Lantern slides 41-84

United States (Slides 41-84)

Item 41

[Waterfall]

Item 42

[Waterfall] [Damaged]

Item 43

Native bungalow. Royal Botanical Gardens

Item 44

Silver Lake and Hoodoos [?] [Man on horse with mules and cart. Rocky landscape] [Photograph by F. Jay Haynes]

Item 45

[Geyser and hot springs]

Item 46

Florida street. Augustine. Street view. [Photograph by McIntosh Stereopticon Company]

Item 47

New York—Sleepy Hollow. Bridge and pool

Item 48

College grounds. Cambridge

Item 49

Longfellow’s home. Cambridge, Massachusetts [Photograph by McIntosh Stereopticon Company]

Item 50

Statue of John Harvard. Cambridge, Massachusetts

Item 51

Old Manse. Concord

Item 52

The Old Riley Homestead

Item 53

Liberty Bell. Philadelphia

Item 54

United States Capitol. Washington, D.C. [Photograph by B.L. Singley]

Item 55

Washington Monument. Washington, D.C.

Item 56

Ceiling—Library of Congress. [Mural] by Elmer E. Garnsey [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 57

“Hercules”—Library of Congress [Mural] by W. McEwen

Item 58

“Comus”—Congressional Library. Washington [D.C.] [Mural] by H.D. Walker. [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 59

“Melpomene”—Library of Congress. [Mural] by Edward Simmons [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 60

U.S. Congress. Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Samuel Townsend]

Item 61

[Boy in blue. “Wordsworth” written over his head”] Library of Congress [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 62

“Achilles” [mural] by W. McEwen. Library of Congress [Photography by Art and Travel Company]

Item 63

[Elihu] Vedder’s mosaic “Minerva”. Library of Congress [Photograph by Samuel Townsend]

Item 64

[Elihu]Vedder. “Minerva”. Congressional Library, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Art and Travel Company]

Item 65

Smithsonian Institute. Washington, D.C.

Item 66

[Page of zoology book imprinted by Thomas Colwell]

Item 67

[“In Zabidium”. A verse]

Item 68

[Title page of “The History of Four-Footed Beasts”. 1607]

Item 69

[“John Alden’s Letter”. Art]

Item 70

Longfellow. 1807-1882 [Portrait]

Item 71

Longfellow in his study [Portrait] [Photograph by McIntosh Stereopticon Company]

Item 72

Miss Eliza Allen Clark [Portrait] [Photograph by Max Platz]

Item 73

W.C. Bryant [Portrait] [Photograph by L. Manasse]

Item 74

James Whitcomb Riley [Portrait]

Item 75

“Christmas morning and you are not awake.” [Girl sleeping in bed. Dog on bed] [Photograph by B.L. Singley]

Item 76

“Santa Claus’ Arrival” [Photography by B.L. Singley]

Item 77

[Two Native American baskets]

Item 78

Esquimaux [Eskimo] mother and babe, and pet wolf on deck of steamer Greenland.

Item 79

[Children in ditch outside by houses]

Item 80

[African American men making wood products]

Item 81

“Donkey in a Goat Cart” [African American boy in small cart pulled by goat] [Photograph by Underwood & Underwood]

Item 82

[Chinese men working with wood]

Item 83

[African American men lined up by train]

Item 84

[African American men lined up by train] [Variant of 83]