American and foreign scenery : the Bible, history, science, art
This is a late nineteenth-century American catalogue of lantern slides issued by A.T. Thompson & Co. of Boston in 1897, offered for projected lectures and home entertainment. Its plates are grouped photographic prints of scenery, ships and Biblical or historical paintings, each captioned with a number and a title. For a designer, the pages show how dense, numbered picture grids were arranged for early reproduction, with clear tonal contrast between photographs and engraved paintings.
