Lantern slide and glass plate photograph collection

This is an artificially created collection of various donations of lantern slides and glass plate negatives. The University of Arizona Extension Service slides were used for educational purposes mainly in the 1910s and 1920s. Highlights of these are views of student life and the conditions of miners in Bisbee in the first part of the 20th century. Many of the mining images were taken by William H. Apgar and other members of the Bisbee Camera Club, circa 1904-1907.

The travel slides of Matthew Holiday were taken on a visit to Arizona circa 1939 to 1941 and include various Native Americans at a powwow or Indian fair. Louis A. Test visited Arizona about 1930 and took photographs of desert scenes. The Japan series has no identification but the images are very good and show people, homes, and buildings in rural and urban areas of Japan from about the 1920s to 1930s.

The slides of birds and fossils are believed to be related to the Laurence Huey manuscript collection, MS 241. Although unidentified, a few slides match images in the collection. Highlights of this series are images of scientists' desert camps and vehicles. The glass plate negatives are an assortment of negatives removed from other photo files as well as a few of birds that seem to relate to Laurence Huey.