American and foreign scenery : the Bible, history, science, art
A photographic lantern-slide catalogue published in Boston in 1897 by A.T. Thompson & Co., offered to lecturers and schools as a set of scenic and historical views. The pictures are black-and-white photographs of a tunnel cut through rock, the ruined tomb of Maximilian's execution site at Queretaro, a crowded seaside beach, and a glacier with jagged peaks behind it. A designer could take from them the stark tonal range of early gelatin prints, with deep shadow in the tunnel, bright sand, and the dense texture of ice and rock.
