Lantern Slide Collection of Wilbur A. Fiske

Fiske, Wilbur A.

Beschreibung

A set of 1,122 lantern slides from the collection of Wilbur A. Fiske, who was the head of the Department of Geology at Occidental College from approximately 1905 until 1913. The collection includes a mixture of photographic images (672) , diagrams (174) , portraits of scientists (26) , and maps (95) , plus slides of aerial photographs from two different commercial providers (97 slides from Spence Air Photo, and 61 from Geo-Aero-Photo, Oklahoma City, Okla. ). 85 slides are of images that appear to have been photographed from books or scientific papers given visible figure captions or other evidence of printed publications in them (although more slides may be photographs from publications, but it wasn't possible to make that determination). Slides credited to Fiske are dated from 1906-1910; the slides from Spence Air Photo are dated from 1928 and 1938; and the slides from Geo-Aero-Photo are dated from 1937-1941. All lantern slides are black and white except for five slides that are at least partially hand-colored. Overall very good. 42 slides are cracked. Wilbur Adrian Fiske was born in the 1860s in Indiana and was educated at Fort Wayne College and DePaul University, with some graduate work at Harvard. He taught high school in Indiana prior to moving to California. His research interests included the flora and geology of the High Sierras and Catalina Island, in addition to education. He was head of the Department of Geology at Occidental College from approximately 1905 until 1913 when he resigned to accept the position of direction of the Chaffey Library Foundation associated with the Chaffey Union High School and the Chaffey Junior College. Fiske died in 1927. The collection consists mostly of images that Fiske took himself (723 of the slides are credited to Fiske) , plus an additional 13 slides where only the slide was credited to Fiske. Of the Fiske-credited slides, they include photography (437) , diagrams (115) , images of scientists (25) , and maps (79). Additional slides likely should be credited to Fiske but were not labeled as such, although it is a reasonable inference to do so since many of these slides have the same subjects as slides explicitly credited to Fiske. 118 of the Fiske-credited slides are dated with dates between 1906-1910, with 17 dated 1906, 21 dated 1907, 108 dated 1908, 57 dated 1909, and 7 dated 1910. Of the slides not explicitly credited to Fiske (but likely taken by Fiske) , 44 have dates between 1905 and 1910. The photography slides were taken mostly in California, where Fiske lived and worked, or Indiana, where he was raised. The California images include 120 of the Sierra Nevada Mountains including 59 labeled from Yosemite National Park or landmarks within the park, many of coastal scenes, and several of a landslide near Occidental College on the Los Angeles Railroad line. Other California locations include Tick Canyon, Arroyo Seco, Mono Lake, and Mount Shasta. Other locations identified in the slides include Yellowstone National Park (10 slides) , Garden of the Gods (Colorado) , Devils Tower (Wyoming) , Grand Canyon (Arizona) , Mt Hood (Oregon) , Mt Saint Helens (Washington) , several scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Niagara Falls, and Alaska. The set of 146 paleontology slides covers the history of life from the Paleozoic to the Pleistocene. It includes 93 diagrams or illustrations, consisting mostly of illustrations of organisms when alive or drawings of fossils, and includes 48 images that possibly are of images from books or scientific papers, and 51 photographs, including photographs of fossil invertebrates and vertebrate skeletons, and 26 slides labeled as from La Brea Rancho. The La Brea images include shots of the fossil quarries and excavations, the ponds, the ranch house, and of mounted or displayed fossils. An additional 52 slides relate geologic history, the majority of which are maps showing the locations of exposures of rocks of specific geologic ages. Sixty-nine of th.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021930

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• Titel: Lantern Slide Collection of Wilbur A. Fiske