Description:
Pine box holding 11 hand-painted wood-mounted glass lantern slides showing various scenes and subjects, including classical statuary, landscape views, astronomy, and meteorolgy (particulary atmospheric phenomenae). Of particular note is a photographic view of Altoona, PA from the tracks of the Pennsylvania R. R. The box also contains a wooden double slide holder for square glass images. The slides are of two sizes, the larger being 5.25" x 12" and the smaller being 7" x 3.875".