From the Wagner Free Institute
On Thursday, join the Wagner and three other special collections libraries for the 2020 Virtual Lantern Slide Salon. Part of Archives Month Philly, the Lantern Slide Salon is a yearly exhibition and celebration of glass lantern slides from special collections around the Philadelphia area.
This year, view digitized glass lantern slides from the collections of:
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Wagner Free Institute of Science
Tour beautiful Philadelphia gardens such as Laverock Hill (shown above) and learn about garden photography; see parades, flying horses, and windmills with the Doering family in turn-of-the-century Philadelphia; explore European cities in the 1930s through the lens of Devere Allen, a journalist, publisher, pacifist, and prominent Socialist Party member; and learn about civil engineering through the Wagner’s images of late 19th to early 20th century bridges and tunnels.
Follow this link for free registration:
OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER 