Photographic illustrations for projection, plain or colored ... : photographic views from nature in all parts of the world : extensive collection : astronomy, light and optics, anatomy, crystallography, physics, botany, geology, geography
A Philadelphia lantern slide catalogue issued by James W. Queen & Company in 1897, offering photographic slides for projection in science and natural history subjects. The pictures are small wood-engraved catalogue ornaments and a sample slide frame, including a secret-society style banner, an I.O.O.F. emblem with an eye, a Masonic square-and-compass emblem with a star, and a black-framed slide showing a figure beside a barrel. A designer might take the banded scroll frames, the cross-hatched engraving, and the emblematic symmetry as period ornament models.
