Slides
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meiere, M. Hildreth, d. 1961
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content: Hildreth Meière papers
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content: Hildreth Meière papers / Series 5: Travel Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1958
container: label: Container
content: Box 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meiemari, Subseries 5.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Slides are arranged by country, some of which have several sets, the earliest encased in taped glass, and later sets in cardboard mounts. Where slide lists and/or notes about slide content exist they are filed directly before the set of slides they describe, and identified sets of slides are arranged in numerical order. Note that some sets of slides were given an original number sequence and then rearranged, presumably for lectures, so that lists are non-sequential. The order of identifications in these lists therefore does not always match the order of the slides, which are filed in numerical order when numbering exists. Where no lists of slides exist and slides have not been assigned numbers, slides are simply organized by country.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Slides in this series were taken during travels by Hildreth Meière and her daughter Louise Meière Dunn from the 1940s through the 1950s. Architecture, murals, and mosaics are highly represented in the images, and some landscape, local scenes, and personal photos are also found. Approximately one-half of the slides are from a lengthy trip Meière refers to in her writings as the "Grand Tour," which began in Australia and New Zealand, and continued to Bali, Indonesia; Bangkok, Thailand; India; Sub-Saharan Africa; Italy; Great Britain; and France. While in England, they witnessed the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Other trips represented in travel slides include Mexico and Guatemala in 1946, South America in 1947, Italy in 1949-1950, Scandinavia in 1951, Middle Eastern countries referred to as the "Holy Land" trip in 1954, and Belgium in 1958, specifically to see the Belgian Fair of that year. Also found are a large set of slides of Italian Mosaics filed with slides from Italy. These and other identified sets appear to have been assembled for slide talks given by Louise and Hildreth Meière. 

There are no identifications on the slides themselves.  Some sets of slides correspond to slide lists of subjects depicted but there are no comprehensive lists of subjects. Handwritten notes with general information about locations and artworks depicted are also found with some sets of slides, and may have been used in travel talks given by Hildreth and/or Louise Meière Dunn.