Accession Number: SC U:65
Location: RB-M Photo
Dates: unknown
Size: 1 small flip-top box; 0.25 cu. ft.
Creator/Collector: unknown
Acquisition info: unknown
Accruals: None expected
Custodial history: unknown
Language: English
Processed by: Amanda Bahr-Evola, February 2016
Conservation notes: The collection is housed in an archival flip-top box. Lantern slides Rehoused into archival sleeves at some point prior to 2-16. All items have been digitized.
Scope and Content: The collection contains 3 ¼ 4” glass lantern slides. Some contain a stickered number. The slides depict images from the 1914 St. Louis Pageant and Masque. Some slides are of drawings, some are of photographs. There is a typewritten list that appears to be a narrative of the slides, perhaps used in a presentation. Original list disintegrating into several pieces. Therefore, it was retyped and the original discarded.
Arrangement: The slides have been arranged in at least 3 different orders over time. At processing, the archivist selected an order based on the original list. 3 slides (labeled: Audience, Opening Scene, and Indian) missing at processing. They were in existence at digitization as digital files do exist.
Restrictions: Collection open for research.
Remarks: Fragile items.
March 2016 Rare Books and Special Collections Series: RB-M Photo Acc. # SC U: 65 Pageant and Masque Lantern Slides Unknown date 1 small flip top box; .25 cu. ft.
Box/Folder Description
1 1. Leyendecker Poster
- Pageant Herald
- Pageant Field
- Set designers working on models
- DeSoto discovering Mississippi
- Soldier with DeSoto
- Mound Builders
- Founding of St. Louis
- Lady of 1775
- Marquette and Joliet
- Transfer of Northern Louisiana Territory
- Little girl of 1804
- Maya Chief
- Figure of Gold
- Lewis and Clark Expedition 1805
- George Rodgers Clark
- Stage Coach of ‘49
- Old River Steamboat
Note: #5, 6, and 15 missing
