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Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics
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Title: Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics
Dates: ca. 1890-1930
Collection Number: photCL 518
Creator/Collector:
Unknown
Extent: 71 lantern slides in 3 boxes; lantern slides 8 x 10 cm. (3 x 4 in.). See itemized list under "Additional collection guides"
Repository:
Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Abstract: These lantern slides make up a group of mostly unidentified slides created by unknown photographers. Many slides show people,
children, scenery, and farming; these scenes appear to be in the southern California area.
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.
Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics. Huntington Library. Photo Archives
In house. 2012
Scope and Content of Collection
Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free
Masons; the steamship “Parisian” in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake;
and Lucky Baldwin’s Ranch in Arcadia, California.
Freemasons
Hollister Ranch (Calif.)
Landscapes
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)
Railroad
Arcadia (Calif.)
Palmdale (Calif.)
Québec (Québec)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Lantern slides