George Kroto Lantern Slide Collection
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- Creators:
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Kroto, George, 1873-1946
Tsurubuchi, H.
Ikeda, Kametaro, 1862-1915
- Dates:
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1901-1910
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130 Items (glass lantern slides, color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1992.02
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Handcolored stereopticon slides of Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Images includes: place views, temples, tea houses, government buildings, domestic architecture, sculpture, landscapes, market scenes, women, Samurai warriors, wrestlers, Shinto and Buddhist priests, lantern makers, and workmen winding silk. Cities depicted include: Kamak...
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- Creators:
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Merrill, William
- Dates:
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September 25, 1980
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8 Envelopes
19 Stamps
2 Slides
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7301
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Stamps are on first-day-issue envelopes postmarked Spokane, Washington. The masks included are of the Bellacoola, Tlingit, and Bellabella. Also included are two slides that show an exhibit of the stamps.
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Republic Aviation Corporation
- Dates:
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bulk 1960s
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0.02 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0027
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of thirty-one black and white three by four glass lantern slides and sixty film slides of Republic's work with Project Fire.
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Dates:
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1914-1925
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17 glass slides
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1294
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of seventeen glass lantern slides depicting World War I advertising and propaganda images. The images include clothing advertisements, home furnishings, local events, treasury and stamp savings, organizations such as the American Red Cross and Merchant Marines, and tips on rationing.
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- Creators:
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Earle, Ralph
- Dates:
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1945.
- Size:
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0794
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 lantern slides and 18 35mm slides, all glass-mounted and taped at edges, showing an atomic bomb test explosion. Of this collection, two slides contain images of the crew conducting the test and a third shows the camp and some of the equipment used. The remainder contain images of explosions and the resulting smoke.
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- Creators:
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Fogelson, Raymond D.
- Dates:
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September, 1960
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36 Slides
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4628
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Slides of North Carolina and Oklahoma Cherokee. A list of individual captions is in the Bureau of American Ethnology file, under "Cherokee."
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- Dates:
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1998
- Size:
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541 slides (photographs) (+master guide +special guide)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1988-005
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
A published instructional slide set of African and Middle Eastern scenes that is part of a larger slide set of "The World History Slide Collection".
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Beauregard, Mildred N.
- Dates:
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circa 1947-1971
bulk 1950-1969
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2 slide viewers
3.25 Cubic feet
1,249 Slides (35mm)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.BRG
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Mildred N. Beauregard Slide Collection contains 1,249 35mm slides, dated circa 1947-1971, of gardens and castles in England, Scotland, France, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, as well as American gardens, photographed by Mildred Napier Beauregard. Some slides show tourist sites and scenes including skylines, rock features, waterways, boats and ships, and unidentified individuals. The collection also includes two slide viewers.
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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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ca. 1890-1920.
- Size:
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0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0686
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 200 lantern slides, of various scenes in America and Canada, many of them published by railroad lines, presumably to arouse tourist interest in travel by rail. New York State and California are especially emphasized. Some images depict the railroads, railroad stations and railroad equipment. One group of images is from the Nabisco factory.
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- Creators:
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McLaren, Lynn, 1922-
- Dates:
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1960-1969
- Size:
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1,632 Slides (color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2007.01
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A set of original 35mm color slides, photographed in India in the 1960s by photojournalist Lynn McLaren (1922-2008). Subjects include people, street scenes, and temple and domestic architecture. Images from photo assignments include Nehru's funeral pyre, the Queen of Sikkim, and traditional Indian actors.