Lantern Slides
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Morison, George S., 1842-1903
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content: George S. Morison Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-1894
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0978, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of lantern slides (3 1/2" x 4"") depicting images and views of the Panama Canal (water ways, trees), as well as the San Blas Indians.  Also included are reproducation maps depicting profiles, elevations, and cut aways of the canal.  The slides are arranged numerically and are not comprehensive.    A typescript index from 1903 is included in the box.  

Many of the general lantern slides relate to the Bellefontaine Bridge (located in St. Louis County, Missouri), but also represented are: Memphis Bridge, the Nebraska City Bridge, the Missouri River at Blair Crossing, and the Coldwater Creek Arch,