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Call Number: |
PH-00280 |
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Collection Name: |
Gillis King Photography Collection |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
803 items |
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Span Dates: |
1800-1900s |
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Description: |
Assembled by Gillis King (American, 1904-1969), the collection consists largely of antique equipment and lantern slides, it but also includes photographic prints and a few negatives by King. The equipment collection focuses on pre-photographic magic lantern apparatus and slides. Equipment includes projectors, a carte-de-visite viewer, and slide holders. Also included are hand-painted lantern slides in both wooden frames and bound in paper, dissolving views, “slipping slides” (changing comic), smoke effect slides, and chromotropes; and photographic lantern slides. The subject matter includes: the American Civil War; popular Christmas imagery; Biblical imagery; scenic views; the Philadelphia Exposition (1876), the Paris Exposition (1878), the New York Centennial (1889), and the Columbian Exposition (1892); travel images from England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ireland, Panama, Egypt, and the United States; and missionary work in Africa, China, Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Other groups of images are of naval and nautical subject matter, maps, sculpture, personages, coastal scenes, and images of the Spanish-American War. |
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Accession No(s): |
976:0004:0001- ? ; 979:0078:0001- ? |
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Location(s): |
Curatorial permission required Projectors IV A.1-4 (976:0022:0001-0004) 17 b (Lantern Slides Boxes 1-16, 1 Equipment Box) 18 osb (Prints & Negatives Boxes 1-15; Equipment I E 1.1-1.2, 1.4) Lantern Slides (III A 1.1-5, 2.1-4; B 1.1-4; C 1.1-15, 2.1-3, 3.1-18, 4.1-42; D 1.1-67, D 2.1-79, 3.1-116; III E 1.1-13; F 1.1-19; G 1.1-3; H 1.1-8, 2.1-5; I 1.1-6; J 1.1-8; K 1.1-5; L 1.1-6; M 1.1-5) |