Nine Magic Lantern Slides of Glacier National Park and the American West. This item is unavailable.Nine Magic Lantern Slides of Glacier National Park and the American West

A collection of Magic Lantern Slides. Not a series. Overall: 3 1/4 × 4 in. (8 × 10 cm). The images depict western scenes (a few identified on stickers or labels on slides or on the slides themselves) of Glacier National Park Hotel, Indian tribes, and men on horseback. A couple slides with cracks at edges, the longest crack measuring 2". One slide taped at edges. Lantern Slides show some wear, but still about very good. Glass lantern slides were introduced in 1849, shortly after the invention of photography, by the brothers William and Frederick Langenheim in Philadelphia. Milwaukee-born photographer Edward Van Altena (1873-1968) moved to Brooklyn with his family when he was 5 years old. In 1888, he was working in a photography studio in Brooklyn. In 1904, he partnered with Jon Duer Scott to form Scott and Van Altena Company which produced hand colored slides. Fred Kiser (1878-1955) was one of the most successful commercial photographers in the United States during the first decades of the twentieth century. He worked as photographer for the Great Northern Railway, and his photographs of northwestern Montana contributed to the creation of Glacier National Park.…