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Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States
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Title: Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States
Dates: ca. 1890-1920
Collection Number: photCL 519
Creator/Collector:
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921;
Platz, Max;
Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd);
White, Hawley C.;
Underwood & Underwood
Extent: 84 lantern slides in 2 boxes; lantern slides 8 x 10 cm. (3 x 4 in.). See itemized list under "Additional collection guides"
Repository:
Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Abstract: This collection depicts images of Switzerland, England, Mexico, Washington D.C., and New England. Thirty-two of the 84 slides
were made by the Art and Travel Company based in Chicago.
Language of Material: English
Access is granted to qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact the Curator of Photographs at the Huntington
Library.
All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Photographs. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Huntington as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Collection of Lantern Slides of Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes images of Harvard University; 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.
Photographers of 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.
African American men
Harvard University
Inuit
Liberty Bell
Library of Congress
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Cambridge (Mass.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
England
Mexico
New England
Switzerland
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite
Washington (D.C.)
Lantern slides
Portraits