1. Lantern Slides: Opening Windows to the Past Rebecca Price Architecture, Urban Planning and Visual Resources Librarian University of Michigan Library

2. Collection Context Univ. of Michigan, Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, Special Collections College of Engineering College of Architecture & Urban Planning School of Art & Design Primarily a teaching collection Grows by donation AAEL Special Collections

3. Visual Resources at AAEL 100,000+ 35mm slides Ongoing conversion to digital Includes DVDs, CD-ROMs, videos Open to students & faculty Visual Resource Collection

4. History of the Lantern Slide “invented” by Christiaan Huygens, c. 1659 Mentions “la laterne magique” in his Oeuvres completes, v. 22 aka Sciopticon Real development came in 19th c. http://www.luikerwaal.com 1899, Germany1878, England1920, Germany

5. 1897 Lantern Slide Show http://witcombe.sbc.edu/arth-technology/arth-technology5.html

6. Lantern Slide Collections: when it rains, it pours Architecture Collection Approx. 10,500 images Geography Collection Approx. 5,000 images Caulfield-McKnight Collection Approx. 3,200 images

7. Travels in India

8. Housing the Collections

9. From Analog to Digital  Inventory and number slides  Clean and repair  Catalog  Scan  Archive  Access

10. Cataloging Images Adopt a database structure or create your own FilemakerPro 6.0 (moving to 7.0) Adopt community standards for data description VRA Core 4.0 (Visual Resources Association) http://www.vraweb.org/datastandards/VRA_Core4_Welcome.html CCO as guide (Cataloging Cultural Objects) http://www.vraweb.org/ccoweb/ Use authority files Art & Architecture Thesaurus Thesaurus for Graphic Materials And others -- listed on LOC site http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/228_authfile.html

11. Particular Cataloging Challenges What is the title? Development of the “worktype” (subject) as a relational field. Importance of the slide as object Identifying the slide maker Identifying the slide colorist Identifying the photographer When was the slide created? Lake Louise, Alberta (maybe?) John Singer Sargent Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885-86 Colorist?

12. Pearl Mosque Agra

13. Nob Hill House San Francisco

14. Burns Park Plan Ann Arbor 1916

15. Scanning: Settings & Standards Tiff files 1200 dpi, 24-bit color for photographic images 800 dpi, 8-bit grayscale for graphic (line drawing, charts, maps) images Smithsonian Institution Archives Image Digitization Standards http://siarchives.si.edu/records/electronic_records/records_erecords_digitization_images.html

17. Click on the thumbnail to see an enlarged image (this can be en- larged several times)

18. Click on the word description to see the catalog record

19. Questions?