Guide to the Glass Lantern Slides
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Guide to the Glass Lantern Slides
Collection number: Mss 270
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Jan. 22, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Glass Lantern Slides
Dates: ca. 1900-1910
Collection number: Mss 270
Collection Size:
0.6 linear feet
(2 microfilm-sized boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: 231 glass lantern slides, a few color, with subjects including adobes, biblical reenactments and scenes, carriages and wagons,
cattle, cowboys, horses, Martinique, Mt. Saint Helens and Ranier, Native Americans, ranches, St. Louis Exposition (1904?),
Northwest scenes (Columbia River, Mt. Hood, Portland), Western scenes and inhabitants, Yellowstone, Yosemite; also scenes
from abroad, including Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Turkey, and Venice.
Physical location: Vault.
Languages:
English
None.
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Glass Lantern Slides. Mss 270. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Scope and Content of Collection
231 glass lantern slides, a few color, firms including Chicago Projecting Co.; Detroit Photographic Co.; Levy & Ses Fils;
McCormick (NY); Selig Polyscope Co.; T. H. McAllister (NY and Grt. Britain); Williams, Brown & Earle. ... Subjects including
adobes, biblical reenactments and scenes, carriages and wagons, cattle, cowboys, horses, Martinique (Mt. Pelee eruption, 1902),
Mt. Saint Helens and Ranier, Native Americans, ranches, St. Louis Exposition (1904?), Northwest scenes (Columbia River, Mt.
Hood, Portland), Western scenes and inhabitants, Yellowstone, Yosemite; also scenes from abroad, including Great Britain (coronation
of Edward VII, 1902), Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Turkey, and Venice.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chicago Projecting Co.
Detroit Photographic Co.
Levy & Ses Fils
T.H. McAllister Co.
Selig Polyscope Company
Williams, Brown & Earle
Box
231 glass lantern slides, ca. 1900-1910