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Collection Summary | |
Creator: |
University of Arizona Library Special Collections |
Collection Name: | Lantern Slide and Glass Plate Photograph Collection, |
Inclusive Dates: | circa 1900-1941 |
Bulk Dates: | 1920-1940 |
Physical Description: | 5.5 linear feet |
Abstract: | An artificial collection of lantern slides and glass plate negatives from the University of Arizona and various donors, taken between 1910 and 1941 but mostly from the 1920s to the 1930s. Highlights include University of Arizona Extension Service lantern slides of university buildings, student activities, and miners and mining, and slides of people and places in Japan in the 1920s to 1930s. |
Collection Number: | MS 574 |
Language: | Materials are in English. |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Lantern slides were created and used for educational and entertainment purposes. Made of glass, they were inserted in special projectors and shown to student or community groups during lectures. Their popularity peaked between 1900 and 1930.
This is an artificially created collection of various donations of lantern slides and glass plate negatives. The University of Arizona Extension Service slides were used for educational purposes mainly in the 1910s and 1920s. Highlights of these are views of student life and the conditions of miners in Bisbee in the first part of the 20th century. Many of the mining images were taken by William H. Apgar and other members of the Bisbee Camera Club, circa 1904-1907.
The travel slides of Matthew Holiday were taken on a visit to Arizona circa 1939 to 1941 and include various Native Americans at a powwow or Indian fair. Louis A. Test visited Arizona about 1930 and took photographs of desert scenes. The Japan series has no identification but the images are very good and show people, homes, and buildings in rural and urban areas of Japan from about the 1920s to 1930s.
The slides of birds and fossils are believed to be related to the Laurence Huey manuscript collection, MS 241. Although unidentified, a few slides match images in the collection. Highlights of this series are images of scientists' desert camps and vehicles. The glass plate negatives are an assortment of negatives removed from other photo files as well as a few of birds that seem to relate to Laurence Huey.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
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Lantern Slide and Glass Plate Photograph Collection (MS 574). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I University of Arizona Extension Service lectures, circa 1910-1940 | |||||||||||
Includes images of campus life such as the library reading room, students sleeping quarters, tennis players, a football game and victory dance, and a swimming pool. Also present are images for children's safety of Tucson pedestrians, bicycles, and the street car. Mine rescue work images include equipment and vehicles used by the rescue team. There are also images of miners and mining including machinery, buildings, miners "at work", facilities for miners such as wash rooms, dining room, and workers' meeting with management including one labeled "Americanizing the foreigners." Many of the mining photographs were taken by William H. Apgar and other members of the Bisbee Camera Club, ca. 1904-1907. This series is arranged into four subseries: Campus life, children's safety and miscellaneous, Mine rescue work, and Miners and mining. | |||||||||||
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1 | 1-48 | Campus life | |||||||||
1 | 49-58 | Children's safety and miscellaneous | |||||||||
1 | 59-77 | Mine rescue work | |||||||||
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2 | 1-73 | Miners and mining |
Series II Matthew R. Holiday, Arizona travel slides, circa 1939-1941 | |||||||||||
The slides include images of people in native dress gathered for an Indian fair, possibly in Phoenix, cactus, Tumacacori Mission, and the Grand Canyon. This series has only limited identification and arrangement by place. | |||||||||||
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3 | 1-24 | Arizona travel scenes | |||||||||
3 | 25-37 | Indian fair, possibly Phoenix | |||||||||
3 | 38-48 | Grand Canyon | |||||||||
3 | 49-59 | Miscellaneous includes Navajo dancers, silversmith, potter |
Series III Louis Agassiz Test, Purdue University professor, desert scenes, circa 1930 | |||||||||||
This series of six images of cacti and buildings in Arizona is not arranged. | |||||||||||
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3 | 60-66 | Louis Agassiz Test, desert scenes |
Series IV Laurence Huey, Birds and fossils, circa 1920s-1930s | |||||||||||
Laurence Huey, curator of birds and mammals at the Natural History Museum in San Diego from 1922 to 1962, has a related collection at MS 241. These are slides of bird and fossil illustrations and photographs, ca. 1920s-1930s. This series is arranged by topic. | |||||||||||
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3 | 67-79 | Desert camps, automobiles, men and wagons | |||||||||
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4 | 1-41 | Illustrations copied from publications | |||||||||
4 | 42-61 | Primarily baby birds and nests | |||||||||
4 | 62-72 | Graphs and charts | |||||||||
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5 | 1-13 | Graphs and charts | |||||||||
5 | 14-49 | Fossils and skeletons |
Series V Japan: people, homes and buildings, circa 1920s-1930s | |||||||||||
This series is arranged by topic. | |||||||||||
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5 | 50-65 | People | |||||||||
5 | 66-76 | Homes and temples | |||||||||
5 | 77-80 | Buildings | |||||||||
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6 | 1-10 | Buildings | |||||||||
6 | 11-22 | Landscapes and boats |
Series VI Miscellaneous glass plate negatives, circa 1900s-1920s | |||||||||||
This series is arranged by topic. | |||||||||||
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7 | 1-36 | Laurence Huey glass plates, illustrations and diagrams | |||||||||
box | item | ||||||||||
8 | 1-4 | Man (double exposure), scenic view of water and rocks, two horses in field | |||||||||
8 | 5-6 | Rodeo fair, Sells, Arizona, ca. 1900, and boys of Tucson Indian Training school (copies in AZSW photo files) | |||||||||
8 | 7-14 | Unidentified family, one in graduation gown, ca. 1900s-1910s | |||||||||
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9 | 1-6 | Laurence Huey glass plates, 7"x9", close-up views of birds |