Magic Lantern Slide Collection, circa 1900-1925 | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Collection Overview

Title: Magic Lantern Slide Collection, circa 1900-1925

Extent: 1.65 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 05/03/2013

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection was purchased for classroom use by Eastern Kentucky State Normal School. The bulk of the collection is from the Keystone View Company and appears to be the "600 set." This set was selected by educators as the most valuable to use in the classroom. The images were selected specifically for the curriculum of the time period. Keystone even produced a guide to the 600 set to make it easy for teachers to use the slides which depict culture, industry, agriculture, transportation, geography, and more from around the world. Most of these images are not dated, but are likely from circa 1900 to circa 1925.

There are also some slides from other smaller companies and an early Eastern faculty member, George D. Smith, created his own slides which can be viewed here.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Acquisition Source: Dorris Museum Collection

Acquisition Method: Transfer

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pennsylvania],
[Series 2: T.H. McAllister],
[Series 3: W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company],
[Series 4: Wm. H. Gilman, Rockford, Illinois],
[Series 5: Records of the Past Photographic Department, Kensington, Maryland],
[Series 6: McIntosh Stereopticon Co., Chicago, Illinois],
[All]

Series 3: W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company

The Welch slides cover a variety of topics, but several deal with land formations.

Box 10

Item 82.01: Forum of Trajam, Rome. Several feet below present city level.
Item 82.04: Building beach. Lake Michigan, Miller, Indiana.
Item 82.30: Mature erosion in mountain region.
Item 82.35: Eroded alluvial land. Effect of flood in 1901.
Item 82.43: Stream cutting way through solid rock.
Item 82.45: Stream cutting way through stratified rock.
Item 82.50: A delta formation. Mouth of the Mississippi
Item 82.52: Map of the delta of the Mississippi River
Item 82.57: Flood plains. The Nile River.
Item 82.64: Jetties. Mouth of Mississippi River.
Item 82.112: A stream plain.
Item 82.129: The beginning of a Natural bridge
Item 82.149: Artesian well playing like geyser. South Dakota.
Item 82.227: San Fancisco Harbor.
Item 82.231: Coast of Molendo, Peru
Item 82.244: St. Lawrence Valley from the Citadel, Quebec, Canada.