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Lantern Slides: Windows to the Past

Explore the fascinating history and cataloging challenges of lantern slides, from their invention to digital conversion. Discover the rich collections at the University of Michigan Library and delve into the transition from analog to digital formats.

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Lantern Slides: Windows to the Past

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  1. Lantern Slides: Opening Windows to the Past Rebecca Price Architecture, Urban Planning and Visual Resources Librarian University of Michigan Library

  2. Collection Context • Univ. of Michigan, Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, Special Collections • College of Engineering • College of Architecture & Urban Planning • School of Art & Design • Primarily a teaching collection • Grows by donation AAEL Special Collections

  3. Visual Resources at AAEL • 100,000+ 35mm slides • Ongoing conversion to digital • Includes DVDs, CD-ROMs, videos • Open to students & faculty Visual Resource Collection

  4. History of the Lantern Slide • “invented” by Christiaan Huygens, c. 1659 • Mentions “la laterne magique” in his Oeuvres completes, v. 22 • aka Sciopticon • Real development came in 19th c. 1878, England 1899, Germany 1920, Germany http://www.luikerwaal.com

  5. 1897 Lantern Slide Show http://witcombe.sbc.edu/arth-technology/arth-technology5.html

  6. Lantern Slide Collections: when it rains, it pours • Architecture Collection • Approx. 10,500 images • Geography Collection • Approx. 5,000 images • Caulfield-McKnight Collection • Approx. 3,200 images

  7. Travels in India

  8. Housing the Collections

  9. From Analog to Digital • Inventory and number slides • Clean and repair • Catalog • Scan • Archive • Access

  10. Cataloging Images • Adopt a database structure or create your own • FilemakerPro 6.0 (moving to 7.0) • Adopt community standards for data description • VRA Core 4.0 (Visual Resources Association) http://www.vraweb.org/datastandards/VRA_Core4_Welcome.html • CCO as guide (Cataloging Cultural Objects) http://www.vraweb.org/ccoweb/ • Use authority files • Art & Architecture Thesaurus • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials • And others -- listed on LOC site http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/228_authfile.html

  11. Particular Cataloging Challenges • What is the title? • Development of the “worktype” (subject) as a relational field. • Importance of the slide as object • Identifying the slide maker • Identifying the slide colorist • Identifying the photographer • When was the slide created? John Singer Sargent Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885-86 Colorist? Lake Louise, Alberta (maybe?)

  12. Pearl Mosque Agra

  13. Nob Hill House San Francisco

  14. Burns Park Plan Ann Arbor 1916

  15. Scanning: Settings & Standards • Tiff files • 1200 dpi, 24-bit color for photographic images • 800 dpi, 8-bit grayscale for graphic (line drawing, charts, maps) images Smithsonian Institution Archives Image Digitization Standards http://siarchives.si.edu/records/electronic_records/records_erecords_digitization_images.html

  16. Click on the thumbnail to see an enlarged image (this can be en- larged several times)

  17. Click on the word description to see the catalog record

  18. Questions?

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