Lantern slide collection. Various.

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Lantern slide collection. Various.

This folder contains images of a wide variety of subjects, including churches (e.g. Talmage's Tabernacle, during and after the 1894 fire), single-family homes, tenement houses, rural scenes, public sculpture in Prospect Park, and the Wallabout Market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Also included are several images of John Q.A. Ward's statue of Henry Ward Beecher. Photographers include Julius Wilcox, E.J. Cockey, John H. Norris, Myers R. Jones, William H. Coughlin, F.W. Davis, Charles H. Morse, W.C. Peckham, Percy G. Farquharson, and Henry L. Underhill.

44 lantern slides ; 3.25 x 4"

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SNAC Resource ID: 8113586

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Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives

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The Brooklyn Museum's lantern slide collection was started by the museum's curator of fine arts, William Henry Goodyear, in the late nineteenth century. With the assistance of photographers Joseph Hawkes and John McKecknie, Goodyear reproduced images of archaeological and architectural sites in Europe and images of the Paris Exposition, which Hawkes often hand-colored for more realistic effect. The lantern slide collection developed, as well, through the efforts of curator of ethnology Stewart C...

Peckham, W. C.

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Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967

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Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Wilcox, Julius, 1837-1924.

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Morse, Charles H.

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Coughlin, William H.

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Farquharson, Percy G.

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New York Naval Shipyard

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The origins of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (officially known as the New York Naval Shipyard) date to 1801, when the United States Navy acquired what had previously been a small, privately owned shipyard in order to construct naval vessels. By the time the Department of Defense ceased shipbuilding activities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, 88 vessels had been manufactured at the facility. In 1967, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was acquired by the City of New York and was converted for private commercial u...

Norris, John H.

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Brooklyn Museum

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The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tradesmen. In 1841, the Library relocated to the building of the Brooklyn Lyceum, an organization devoted to intellectual pursuits in the arts and sciences, at the corner of Washington and C...

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.

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Culin was University of Pennsylvania museum director from 1892. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226042711 Stewart Culin (1858-1929), ethnologist and museum curator, worked at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology and Anthropology from 1890 to 1903, and served as Curator of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum from 1903 until his death. From the descr...

Jones, Myers R.

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Cockey, E. J.

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Davis, F. Whylock

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Underhill, Henry L.

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