Libraries and Archives: Lantern Slide Collection: Brooklyn, Packer Institute

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On View: Socketed Tube Coupler

Recent archaeological excavations in China have identified the original function of these superbly decorated objects. The fitting is part of...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Statuette of Hippopotamus

    Egyptian artists decorated statuettes of hippos with images of Nile flora and fauna. Common motifs included lotus buds, flowers, marsh grass...

     

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    • Folder: Brooklyn, Packer Institute
      • Call Number: S10_21_Brooklyn_Packer_Institute
      • Series: Views: U.S., Brooklyn
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    The Brooklyn Museum's lantern slide collection was started by the Museum's curator of fine arts, William Henry Goodyear, in the late nineteenth century. The Museum's Libraries and Archives now holds 11,710 glass lantern slides, and selections can be seen here.

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