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Lantern Slides

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Part Of: Stan J. Carr fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 8 colour lantern slides, some captioned. File subjects include an unidentified mountain scene, Mount Assiniboine, horse in unientified mountain scene, man posed in campsite in unidentified location, Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier, Hector Lake and Bow Peak, unidentified man in cam…

Date Range: ca. 1912

Reference Code: V127 / PS - 1 to 8

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

8 images

Part Of: Stan J. Carr fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M 179; V 127

Sous-Fonds: V 127

Accession Number: 1072

Reference Code: V127 / PS - 1 to 8

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: ca. 1912

Physical Description: 8 photographs : col. slides ; 10.5 x 14 cm

History / Biographical: Additive Colour Screen Plates, first theorized by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, were the first forms of colour photography. Maxwell’s original process involved printing the same black and white image through different coloured screens onto transparencies and then projecting them overlapped in order to create a single full-colour image. In 1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron expanded on this method by placing a screen made up of microscopic coloured stripes in front of a light-sensitive emulsion before exposing it to light. During exposure, the colours in the screen attached to the developing picture so when viewed back through the screen in a projector the image appeared fully in colour. Neither of these methods were commercially popular during the 19th century since black and white processes were cheaper and more widely available. In 1907 the Lumiere brothers introduced the Autochrome process to wide commercial success. The Autochrome process involved a mix of tiny potato starch grains dyed green, orange-red, and blue-purple that were mixed thoroughly and applied to a glass slide coated in a sticky varnish that held the grains in an evenly-distributed layer. The grains were laminated into the varnish to make them smaller and more transparent, and then the whole thing was sealed with another layer of waterproof varnish. The entire process could be done by machines, which made the slides cheap to produce, easily available to the public and opened up the process to amateur photographers. Photographs developed on Autochrome plates created soft images with relatively natural colour rendering, making them popular with artists and photojournalists. Autochrome plates (which came to refer to all colour screen plates regardless of manufacturer) created one-of-a-kind positive images and required long exposure times. Once an image was complete, it had to be quickly covered with either a strong coating of varnish or another slide of glass and then sealed along the edges with binding tape. Because silver is an element of the sticky base varnish that holds the dyed grains, if moisture was allowed to access the image the layers of varnish could ripple or tear away from the glass, or the dye could bleed or fade. The silver base is highly sensative to oxygen and if improperly sealed images could begin to "mirror," a process in which the exposed parts of the slide become uniform and shiny, obscuring the image. Because of the random distribution of dyed colour grains throughout the image and the lines created by laminating those grains into the base varnish, Autochrome transparencies are often mistaken for hand-painted coloured slides. Autochrome can be identified by looking closely for small dots of colour in all parts of the image, rather than the solid blots of colour found on hand-painted slides.

Scope & Content: File consists of 8 colour lantern slides, some captioned. File subjects include an unidentified mountain scene, Mount Assiniboine, horse in unientified mountain scene, man posed in campsite in unidentified location, Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier, Hector Lake and Bow Peak, unidentified man in camp.

Name Access: Carr, Stan J.

Subject Access: Exploration; Discovery and travel; Lantern slide

Geographic Access: Mount Assiniboine; Lake Louise; Bow Summit; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access

Language: English

Conservation: Re-seal all slides appropriately; keep stored in cool, dry, dark area; refrain from exposing to further damage.

Creator: Carr, Stan J.

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel

Biographical Source Notes: http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/?process_id=286#overview; https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/slide#autochrome

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Images

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Rocky Mountain Trips Lantern Slides

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Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have be…

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 132 to PS - 180

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

49 images

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M236 / V282

Series: V282 / III: Photography

Sous-Fonds: V282

Sub-Series: V282 / III / B: Photography: lantern slides

Accession Number: 1316, 1933

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 132 to PS - 180

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Physical Description: 49 photographs : b&w and col. slides : 10.2 x 8.2 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have been developed onto a sheet and then individually cut out to form the slides.

Name Access: Hinman, Caroline

Subject Access: Photography; Outfitters; Outfitters, trail guides and packers; Horse packing; Horses; Mount Assiniboine; Travel

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Jasper; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Park; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: All slides cleaned prior to scanning. Repair binding tape where needed.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Images

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Rocky Mountain Trips Lantern Slides

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54691

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have be…

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 181 to PS - 225

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

45 images

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M236 / V282

Series: V282 / III: Photography

Sous-Fonds: V282

Sub-Series: V282 / III / B: Photography: lantern slides

Accession Number: 1316, 1933

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 181 to PS - 225

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Physical Description: 46 photographs : b&w and col. slides : 10.2 x 8.2 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have been developed onto a sheet and then individually cut out to form the slides.

Name Access: Hinman, Caroline

Subject Access: Photography; Outfitters; Outfitters, trail guides and packers; Horse packing; Horses; Mount Assiniboine; Travel; Hunting

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Jasper; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Park; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: All slides cleaned prior to scanning. Repair binding tape where needed.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Rocky Mountain Trips Lantern Slides

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54688

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have be…

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 53 to PS - 86

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

34 images

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M236 / V282

Series: V282 / III: Photography

Sous-Fonds: V282

Sub-Series: V282 / III / B: Photography: lantern slides

Accession Number: 1316, 1933

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 53 to PS - 86

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Physical Description: 34 photographs : b&w and col. slides : 10.2 x 8.2 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have been developed onto a sheet and then individually cut out to form the slides.

Name Access: Hinman, Caroline

Subject Access: Photography; Outfitters; Outfitters, trail guides and packers; Horse packing; Horses; Mount Assiniboine; Travel

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Jasper; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Park; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: All slides cleaned prior to scanning

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Rocky Mountain Trips Lantern Slides

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54689

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have be…

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 87 to PS - 131

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

45 images

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M236 / V282

Series: V282 / III: Photography

Sous-Fonds: V282

Sub-Series: V282 / III / B: Photography: lantern slides

Accession Number: 1316, 1933

Reference Code: V282 / III / B / PS - 87 to PS - 131

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1913 - 1958

Physical Description: 45 photographs : b&w and col. slides : 10.2 x 8.2 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have been developed onto a sheet and then individually cut out to form the slides.

Name Access: Hinman, Caroline

Subject Access: Photography; Outfitters; Outfitters, trail guides and packers; Horse packing; Horses; Mount Assiniboine; Travel

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Jasper; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Park; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada