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
 magic lantern American Indians

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.
 [shelf locator: photography drawer, AHBWP slides]

$1250.00 plus $6.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra) for this slide.
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Joseph Henry Sharp
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


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