Transparency file [graphic]. [ca. 1850-ongoing]

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Transparency file [graphic]. [ca. 1850-ongoing]

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This file consists of ca. 12,500 transparencies (ca. 1850-present), images intended to be viewed as light shines through them and often mounted for use in a projector. Includes 46 magic lantern slides (hand-painted); 4,869 lantern slides (chiefly black-and-white, some hand-colored), 3 1/4 x 4 in.); ca. 7,000 stereo slides (chiefly color film, some black-and-white glass, 35 mm); and ca. 500 film slides (chiefly color, 35 mm and 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.). World's Fair, people in Central Park, and other New York sights from 1952 to 1963. Daniel Coleman snapped family scenes and Manhattan's Upper West Side from 1954 to 1963, done as small captioned stereo slides. Almost 800 stereo slides taken by G.L. Osmanson from ca. 1959 to 1963 document ship passenger terminals, harbors, bridges, and Riverside Park. More than 200 slides by Harry Gressang document the 1964 New York World's Fair.

ca. 7,000 transparencies : stereograph, chiefly film and col. ; chiefly 35 mm.4,869 transparencies : lantern slides, chiefly b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.ca. 500 slides : film, chiefly col. ; chiefly 35 mm.46 transparencies : magic lantern slides, hand col.ca. 200 photographic prints : b&w.

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