J.F. Maertz Department Stores Advertisement Lantern Slides
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Keystone View Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Maertz, J.F., Department Store (Milwaukee, Wis.).
label: Collection Photographer
content: Rau, William H., 1855-1920
label: Collection Creator
content: Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
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content: Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: early 1920s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0945, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 5: J. Stanley-Brown and E. H. Harriman lantern slides, undated, is divided into nineteen subseries: Subseries 1: Alaska-California scenes, undated; Subseries 2: Animal life, undated; Subseries 3: Artifacts, undated; Subseries 4: California/Franciscan life, undated; Subseries 5: California Indians, undated; Subseries 6: California mission exteriors, undated; Subseries 7: California mission interiors, undated; Subseries 8: Eskimos, undated; Subseries 9: Franciscans, undated; Subseries 10: Indians, undated; Subseries 11: Landscapes, undated; Subseries 12: Maps, undated; Subseries 13: Mission interiors, undated; Subseries 14: Seascapes, undated; Subseries 15: General images (#1-7;10), undated; Subseries 16: General images (#11-14; 16-17; 19-20), undated; Subseries 17: General images (#21-30), undated; Subseries 18: General images (#31-33; 36-40), undated; and  Subseries 19: General images (#42; 45-50), undated.

The series contains lantern slides, each labeled with the names of distributors, "J. Stanley-Brown, 1318 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C. and E.H. Harriman, 1 East, 55th Street, New York."   The slides, some with captions, depict maps; landscapes; seascapes; Eskimos; animal life; Franciscan dwellings; Indians of California; California missions and Franciscan life.  There are slides depicting various scenes of California missions and scenes of indigenous Alaskans.  Some slides are cracked.