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Call Number:

PH-00368

Collection Name:

Visual Instruction Bureau Photography Collection

Creator:

University of Texas. Visual Instruction Bureau

No. of Items:

1250 items

Span Dates:

1930s-1970s

Description:

The collection is comprised of approximately 75 film based negatives and 1,175 lantern slides of a wide variety of subject matter from the Visual Instruction Bureau (VIB) that was a part of the Division of Extension at the University of Texas at Austin. Established in the 1910s, the purpose of the VIB was "[t]o assist schools and communities in promoting the visual method in education" and serve "as a loan bureau for lantern slides and motion picture films." To that end, the VIB created and lent films, lantern slide sets and lanterns (projectors), and mounted reproductions of paintings, and equipment to promote was disbanded in 1976.

Texas. University. Visual Instruction Bureau, and William R Duffey. Visual Instruction Through Lantern Slides and Motion Picture Films. [Austin, Tex., The University, 1918] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/19027344/.

Location(s):

Visual Instruction Bureau, Lantern slides
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Visual Instruction Bureau, Nitrate Box 1
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