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Top 10 Educational Lantern Slide Vendors/Providers

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Note:There are three lists of lantern slide providers:
#1 - Top Ten Providers, most frequently used providers according to this survey
#2 - The providers mentioned by the survey respondents
#3 - A motr comprehensive list of lantern slide providers

McAllister, T.H., NY, NY. active 1890s. (11 institutional citations) Altena, Edward Van, NY, NY. active 1890s-1910s. (7 intuitional citations) Underwood & Underwood, active 1880s-1940s. (6 institutional citations) Beseler Lantern Slide Co., NY, NY. (6 institutional citations) Thurston, John H., Boston, MA. (5 institutional citations) University Prints, Cambridge, MA. (5 institutional citations) Handy, A.D. , Boston, MA. active 1909 +. (4 institutional citations) Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. (4 institutional citations) Stoedtner, Franz, Dr., Berlin. active 20th c. (4 institutional citations) Chicago Slide Co. (4 institutional citations) Top 10 Vendors By Reporting Institutions McAllister, T.H. American Magic-Lantern Theater DePauw University Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Middlebury College Neville Public Museum of Brown County Oberlin College Department of Art Oberlin College Library University of Hawaii Library, Manoa campus University of Texas at Austin UC Berkeley AVRL Visual Studies Workshop Altena, Edward Van Johns Hopkins University Mount Holyoke College University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology UC Berkeley AVRL Visual Studies Workshop Underwood & Underwood Arizona State Museum DePauw University Oberlin College Department of Art Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Rhode Island School of Design University of Nevada Beseler Lantern Slide Co. DePauw University Oberlin College Department of Art Rhode Island School of Design University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Visual Studies Workshop Thurston, John H. Harvard University Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Mount Holyoke College Rhode Island School of Design Williams College University Prints, Cambridge, MA. Arizona State Museum Indiana University FAL Mount Holyoke College University of Nevada Williams College Handy, A.D. Boston, MA American Magic-Lantern Theater Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Oberlin College Library Rhode Island School of Design NYU Institute of Fine Arts UC Berkeley AVRL Winterthur Museum Williams College Stoedtner, Dr. Franz Getty Research Institute Indiana University Fine Arts Library Williams College Chicago Slide Co. DePauw University Rhode Island School of Design University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation * Vendor Index ** Vendors By Institution ** Institution Index ** Institution Answers ** Home * NALSS data Prepared Summer 2006 by Miriam Nelson. Revised September 2006 by Maryly Snow.