Magic Lantern glass slide (stereopticon) historical memorabilia.

Magic Lantern Show Catalog

Here is a rare early booklet to accompany a magic lantern show that Presbyterians would give to raise awareness of their mission and to seek donations to fund those missions.
Stereopticon Lectures on Home Missions: INDIANS; Descriptive of the Unique and Picturesque Red Men and Missions Among Them. Literature Department, Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. Circa 1885. 32 page lecture guide for the set of 75 stereopticon (magic lantern) glass slide photographs (not included).

A list of the 75 images and the lecture text for each image.

$75 plus $2.50 postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Ephemera Notebook: Magic Lantern] Inventory #1370 . To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Asahel Curtis Magic Lantern Slide of Seattle, birds-eye-view, Smith Tower

Asahel Curtis

Magic Lantern glass slide of Seattle by Asahel Curtis, with Smith Tower in the foreground, probably taken in the 1930's. Hand colored. There is a reflection in the pic that is not in the slide.

$45 plus $4.80 postage (international orders extra). Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: photography drawer, AHBWP slides] To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com

Joseph Henry Sharp

Offered is a wonderful, very carefully hand-tinted, original magic lantern glass slide
of Taos artist Joseph Henry Sharp, shown painting an Indian. They are outside Sharp's new Taos studio (see Fenn: Teepee Smoke, page 225).

The slide was published by the Santa Fe Railroad.

3.75 x 4 inches. Excellent condition.
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$1250.00 plus $6.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra) for this slide.
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Photograph of Joseph Henry Sharp shown painting an Indian at Taos

close-up of Joseph Henry Sharp painting an Indian

Severa Tafoya and Maria Tafoya glass photograph

Severa & Maria Tafoya
Original magic lantern glass slide, circa 1930

Severa and Maria Tafoya, potters, of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico at the home of Wm. L. Earl, as the label states.

3.75 x 4 inches. Very good condition.

[shelf locator: photography drawer, AHBWP slides]

$195.00 plus $5.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra) for this slide.
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Severa & Maria Tafoya glass magic lantern slide

USS Enterprise

Nice 1898 magic lantern slide photograph of the USS Enterprise (1874), a 3 masted barque-rigged screw sloop. By W. Packard & F. Endicott. 3 1/4" x 4". Very good condition slide of this U.S. war ship.

$75.00 plus $5.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra) for this slide.
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For sale: 1898 magic lantern slide photograph of the USS Enterprise (1874), a 3 masted barque-rigged screw sloop.

Wiki: USS Enterprise, a barque-rigged screw sloop, was launched 13 June 1874 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, USA, by John W. Griffiths, a private contractor; and commissioned 16 March 1877, Commander George C. Remey in command. She was later commanded by Bowman H. McCalla around 1890.
Enterprise's first duty after fitting out at Norfolk, Virginia took her to the mouth of the Mississippi River for surveying operations. Returning to Norfolk in April 1878, she remained there only briefly, sailing 27 May, for surveying duty up the Amazon and Madeira Rivers. This completed, she repaired at New York City, then (December 1878) joined the U.S. naval forces in European waters, calling at numerous ports in northern Europe and in the Mediterranean. She returned to the Washington Navy Yard on 9 May 1880 and was placed out of commission.
Recommissioned on 12 January 1882, she cruised the east coast until 1 January 1883 when she sailed on a three-year hydrographic survey that took her completely around the world. Her findings on this cruise added materially to the knowledge of the oceans, their currents, and their bottoms. During the journey she was a neutral witness of the Battle of Fuzhou on 23 August 1884 during the Sino-French War war. Enterprise was decommissioned at New York on 21 March 1886.
Placed back in commission on 4 October 1887, Enterprise sailed from Boston in January 1888 for two years in the waters of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the east coast of Africa, where she showed the flag and looked out for United States' interests. She returned to New York in March 1890 and was decommissioned on 20 May.
Enterprise was again commissioned 8 July 1890, and for the next year operated principally in the Caribbean. From September 1891 until September 1892, she served as training and practice ship at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. On 17 October 1892 at Boston, she was lent to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for duty as a school ship at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. In that capacity she trained cadets for some 17 years (the current MMA training ship was named USTS Enterprise in honor of her until the name was changed to USTS Kennedy). Returned to the Navy on 4 May 1909, Enterprise was sold on 1 October 1909.

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