2022 Philadelphia Lantern Slide Salon

1700 West Montgomery Avenue,Philadelphia PA 19121

12 October, 2022

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Philadelphia Lantern Slide SalonWednesday, October 12, 2022, 6 to 7:30 pm - in the Wagner's lecture hall Celebrate Archives Month Philly at the Wagner Free Institute of Science as we showcase glass lantern slides from the special collections of the American Philosophical Society, Hagley Museum & Library, Mercer Museum Research Library, Temple University Special Collections Research Center, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science during the annual Philadelphia Lantern Slide Salon. Predating the motion picture, lantern slides were used for entertainment and to illustrate educational programs. The Philadelphia Lantern Slide Salon will be held in the Wagner’s Victorian-era lecture hall using an historic lantern projector. Please join us for a rare treat as we revive an old technology in order to see culturally significant lantern slide collections from the libraries and archives of Philadelphia’s most distinguished institutions. Images:William H. Rau, Hemlock Forest, ca. 1895, Box 1, Folder 24, William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807Henry Chapman Mercer glass plate negative and slide collection, SC-29-38 and Henry C. Mercer lecture on "700 Miles in a Houseboat on the Rivers of France", SC-23, 2034 M. Mercer Museum Research Library.