Bookmark this page or copy and paste URL to Email message Lantern Slide and Glass Plate Photograph Collection, circa 1900-1941(bulk 1920-1940)MS 574
Historical NoteLantern 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. Scope and Content NoteThis 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. ArrangementThis collection is organized into six series.Series I: University of Arizona Extension Divison lectures,
1910-1940 Series II: Matthew R. Holiday, Arizona travel slides, circa 1939-1941 Series III: Louis Agassiz Test, desert scenes, circa 1930 Series IV: Laurence Huey, Birds and fossils, circa 1920s-1930s Series V: Japan people, homes and buildings, circa 1920s-1930s Series VI: Miscellaneous glass plate negatives, circa 1900-1920s RestrictionsRestrictionsThere are no restrictions on this collection. CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Access TermsPersonal Name(s) Apgar, William H. (William Hermann)--Photographer. Huey, Laurence M. (Laurence Markham), 1892-1963. Subject(s) Birds--Arizona--Photographs. Copper miners--Arizona--Photographs. Japan--Description and travel--20th century--Photographs. Mine buildings--Arizona--Photographs. Mine rescue work--Arizona--Photographs. Miners--Arizona--Bisbee--Photographs. Miners--Health and hygiene--Arizona--Photographs. Powwows--Arizona--Photographs. University of Arizona--Buildings--Photographs. University of Arizona--Students--Photographs. University of Arizona. Agricultural Extension Service. Genre Form(s) Glass negatives Lantern slides Title(s) Administrative InformationCredit LineLantern Slide and Glass Plate Photograph Collection (MS 574). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries. Container List
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