Lantern Slide Collection
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
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content: Myron Bement Smith Collection
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content: Myron Bement Smith Collection / Series 2: The Islamic Archives
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.04, Subseries 2.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The Islamic Archives includes a small number of lantern slides. Some have Islamic Archives alphanumeric accession numbers but two of the larger collections are unnumbered. One of the latter includes the colored lantern slides for an an illustrated lecture on an Iranian Muharram celebration in the 1930s or before. Another set of mostly black and white lantern slides depicts Turkey in the 1930s.