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Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library — Special Collections |
Series XVII – Lantern Slides, 1906 and Undated
Series XVII (135 glass slides) is organized by subject into four subseries: Botanicals, Homes and Gardens, Landcapes, and Miscellaneous. The lantern slides are positive images on glass and measure 3 ΒΌ inches x 4 inches. All slides but one are identified though only one is dated. Most of the slides are black and white, but seventeen are hand-colored (presumably by Mrs. Gleason).
Botanicals include: flowers and trees. Landscapes include shots of stunted pines, wind-bent pines, and panoramic views of mountains in Colorado. One unusual slide is a view of the Continental Divide taken from an airplane. Homes and Gardens include views of prominent gardens found in Series V and several images of the Smiley's residence in Redlands, CA (see also Series X). Miscellaneous slides include a Burbank manuscript page. Gleason's slide lectures were the product of his many years of travel and study of nature. The slides in this series offer but a fragmentary glimpse of the hundreds of images Gleason used in his illustrated lectures.