Lantern slide, glass slide. Handpainted over B&W image. Black frame with gold letters "Edward Van Altena 71-79W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Slide is numbered 1. No wood frame. Image is handpainted, but looks like a B&W photograph underneath. It is of a man standing alone in the middle of nature, on the side of a mountain on a cliff, looking up at the sky. There's mountains around him, trees towering over him. The sky is blue with some clouds. Date based on research that shows Edward Van Altena's studio was active during 1890s-1910s. This series part of Life Model Slides. "The most popular slides in Victorian times were 'life model slides', which depicted popular sentimental stories of the day.The slides were produced by arranging actors in costume in front of a painted back drop. Stage props were placed in front of the actors and the scenes from the story were photographed. The slides were often hand tinted with colour and sold in boxes, along with a text to be used as a reading.In particular the temperance movement and political speakers used slides to convert a mass audience." (http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/wally-simpkins-look-at-east-riding-history/Shadow-shows-and-magic-lanterns.2696708.jp)

Lantern slide, glass slide. Handpainted over B&W image. Black frame with gold letters "Edward Van Altena 71-79W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Slide is numbered 2. No wood frame. Image of covered wagons making their way through the mountains, sky is painted blue and pink. The image is handpainted over a B&W slide.

print with white border, depicts landscape dominated by snow-capped mountain.

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Handwritten on the wood frame in pencil "Fountain of the Monte-Pincio, Rome." Image is a fountain with a standing figure of a man, two seated figures on either side of him and two obelisks on either side of the actual fountain, with a building in the background.

File consists of stereographs depicting various locations, buildings and monuments in Syria and Lebanon, such as trees, buildings, and rivers.

8 stereoscopic photographs by Underwood & Underwood.
1 stereoscopic photograph by C. Bierstadt.
1 stereoscopic photograph by E. J. Wardwell Co.
1 stereoscopic photograph by Keystone View Company.
1 stereoscopic photograph by T. W. Ingersoll
3 stereoscopic photographs by unidentified publishers.

File consists of stereographs and stereographic sets depicting structures, famous locations, and scenes from Japan & Korea, such as waterfalls, lakes, streets scenes, and temples.

7 stereoscopic photographs by Keystone View Co.
10 stereoscopic photographs by Underwood & Underwood
2 stereoscopic photographs by Kilburn Brothers, in association with James M. Davis
1 stereoscopic photograph by H. C. White Co.
1 stereoscopic photograph by N. S. Co.
7 stereoscopic photographs by unidentified publishers
1 series called "Japan and Russian Views" by an unidentified publisher
1 series on Japan and China by Underwood & Underwood