DONOR:

Mary (Beppy) Brown

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1264 glass slides and accompanying scripts for slide shows; tickets and promotional literature; and projection equipment. Mary Brown inherited the collection from a Joseph Earl Appley. The slides date back to the early twentieth century, when Appley is presumed to have used them in some of his traveling shows.

Subjects depicted in the slides:

Advertisements - dental work

    Agricultural and other industrial products and processes - fields, orchards, apples, grapefruit, grapes, peas
    Strawberries from California, Colorado and Oklahoma
    Kansas corn, western Canadian oat and wheat
    Cows, hogs, horses, sheep and trout
    Picking apples and strawberries
    Dressing beef and hogs
    Harvesting, plowing and reaping western Canadian oats, wheat and hay
    Corn husking in Kansas
    Potato digging and loading, poultry packing
    Sugar factory
    Tin mine trimming sausage

Art prints - Currier and Ives, religious art

Ben Hur - depicting the story and text

Flags and Maps of the US and Canada - lakes, railroads and Yellowstone Nat. Park

Man of Galilee

Medical Pictures - brain, spinal cord, lungs, intestines and stomach

Monuments of Paris

Natural and scenic wonders of the US and Canada (Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, Mount Rainier, Banff and others) wildlife - bears, deer, elk, mountain goats and prairie dogs; flora - petrified trees and plant root systems

Portraits (Napoleon, Pres. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson)

Religious pictures - angels, Jesus and maps (bird's eye view of life of Christ)

Temperance propaganda and pictures - gambling party
    Stomachs of various degrees of drunkards - habitual drinker, hard drinker, moderate drinker and that of a "temperance man"

Urban photographs - Nelson, British Columbia
    Digby, Nova Scotia
    Minneapolis
    Montreal
    New York City
    Quebec
    Paris
    San Diego
    San Francisco - incl. the 1906 earthquake
    Seattle
    Winnepeg - bridges, churches, harbors, homes (incl. Shakespeare's), hotels, irrigation projects, monuments
    and statues, opera houses, railroad stations, world's fairs and stadiums

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