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Lantern Slides
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Dream Pictures: Branson DeCou Archive 
 A browsable collection of nearly 1,500 painted lantern slides of Italy (most likely taken in the 1920s and early 1930s). Includes images of "Rome, Venice, and Florence, and picturesque tourist destinations like the Ligurian and Amalfi rivieras and the Alpine hills and lakes of the North." Also features a brief biography of DeCou, a bibliography, and information on lantern slides. From the University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. http://library.ucsc.edu/vrc/decou-dream-pictures Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography Last updated Sep 24, 2009 Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity
Many of these images "from late in the nineteenth or early in the twentieth century ... were taken of monuments that have subsequently been damaged or eroded. There are also photographs of excavations in progress and of monuments in stages of repair/restoration." Photos are browsable by country. Includes images of the Parthenon, Pompeii, the Forum, and more. A Center for the Study of Architecture (CSA) project in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College. http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/visualresources/lanterns/ Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Oct 6, 2009 Magic Lantern Slides: The Berkeley Geography Collection
A collection of glass "magic" lantern slides of California, dating from about 1900 through 1915. Browsable by geographic area (North Coast and Coast Ranges, Klamath and Cascade Mountains, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Sierra Foothills, Central Coast and Coast Ranges, Southern California, and deserts). A "Geo-Images" site from the University of California, Berkeley. http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/LanternSlides/LanternSlides_TOC.html Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 11, 2003 The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
A collection of over 8,000 photographs (including glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards) of South Texas and the Mexican border, taken by commercial photographer Robert Runyon. Features images of the Mexican Revolution, Fort Brown, and the Rio Grande Valley. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject. Also contains a brief biography of Runyon and maps of the lower Rio Grande region. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/runyon/ Topics: History By Place, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 16, 2009 Tacoma Public Library's Photography Archive
This Web site features a collection of photographs that document "the social, industrial, commercial, and agricultural growth and development of Washington [state] and the Pacific Northwest." The collection includes "daguerreotypes, glass lantern slides, early and modern prints, panoramic photographs, ambrotypes and tintypes, glass and film negatives, and more." Searchable, or view images using the random-display feature. http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images/ Topics: Agriculture, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 14, 2004 A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict
Part of a series of New York Public Library exhibitions on the Spanish-American War. "Each of the communities linked to that conflict remembers and has named the war in its own particular way. Through an examination of patriotic appeals in newspapers, pamphlets, popular books, maps, sheet music, poetry, cartoons, lithographs, photographs, lantern slides, and early motion pictures, this exhibition explores the sources of those memories and perceptions." http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/spanexhib/ Topics: Communications, Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Poetry, Politics, September 11 & Beyond, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 3, 2004 |
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