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Keystone View Company lantern slides
From 1892 to 1963, the Keystone View Company produced thousand of images of people and places from the United States and around the world. The photos are of historical, social, cultural, and geographic interest. The company was founded in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur p...
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| Collection: | Keystone View Company Lantern Slides |
| Collection Number: | V29 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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| 110 | 2 | |a Keystone View Company |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Keystone View Company lantern slides |f 1900-1920 | |
| 300 | |a 0.25 Linear feet |f 0.25 linear feet, 2 boxes, 16 items | ||
| 520 | |a From 1892 to 1963, the Keystone View Company produced thousand of images of people and places from the United States and around the world. The photos are of historical, social, cultural, and geographic interest. The company was founded in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer who began by selling glass slides of local interest. The slides soon became a popular form of entertainment and the company grew to include some 50,000 images. As other forms of entertainment replaced the viewing of lantern slides, the company’s growth slowed. It was purchased in 1963 by the Mast Development Company. Mast retained a Keystone division for a short time that manufactured products for the optical profession. This collection consists of sixteen lantern slides from the Keystone View Company. The first seven slides, numbered 61 through 67, contain images of industrial Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six of these scenes relate to the city’s iron and steel industry, while the seventh is a shot of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. The next three photographs present a coke mine and an oil well from unknown locations in Pennsylvania. Two photographs represent America’s past with a scene from the Gettysburg battlefield and a still of the Liberty Bell from inside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The four remaining photographs are also from Philadelphia. Two are industrial and are from a textile mill and a locomotive workshop. Another is of people working in a school garden, while the last photo is of the coining presses at the federal mint. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a unknown | |
| 555 | |a Finding Aid Available Online: | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Iron Industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Liberty Bell |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Mints--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia |2 Local sources | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Keystone View Company Lantern Slides |c V29 | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |y Link to finding aid |u http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/findingaidv29keystone.pdf |