Keystone View Company
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1891 -
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Keystone View Company Lantern Slides collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0130
Abstract
Collection consists of 218 images from the "600 Set" of glass lantern slides produced by the Keystone View Company, a distributor of stereographic images formed in 1892 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, by B. L. Singley. For use in the classroom, each slide is approximately 4 inches by 3.25 inches and labeled with a number and a short description. Images depict a wide range of subject matter but primarily illustrate places of urban and rural commercial and agricultural industry including farms,...
Dates:
1890s-1940s
Found in:
Special Collections
Gene Waddell stereograph collection of rice and cotton cultivation
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-186
Abstract
Collection consists of twelve stereographs of rice and cotton cultivation in South Carolina (including Georgetown, South Carolina); Savannah, Georgia; Louisiana; and Mississippi, compiled by Gene Waddell. A majority of the stereographs were produced by the Keystone View Company but the collection also includes stereographs produced by Underwood & Underwood, the Kilburn Brothers, and American Views. Stereograph images depict African Americans plowing, hoeing and flooding rice fields,...
Dates:
1879, 1904-1905
Found in:
Special Collections