Broken Lantern Slides

The Louis Borris Magid Visual Materials Collection contains a scrapbook, photographs, lantern slides, and glass plate negatives relating to sericulture and silk production. The majority of images in the scrapbook seem to be clipped from Magid's journal Silk (the archives has volume 1, bound, in Neely Room SF541 . S4).

Most of the loose photographs depict machinery used in various stages of silk production. However, there are a few photographs that show Magid, people, and products related to the Sericulture and Manufacturing Company of Tallulah Falls, and some unidentified sericulture-related locations.

The majority of lantern slides are of Japanese origin, showing Japanese men, women, and children at work in various stages of sericulture. The slides have captions in Japanese and are numbered as in series or sets. There are a few lantern slides that have one or both sides of glass broken; they are housed in a separate box. Because most of the captions are in Japanese, the item titles are only descriptions of what appears in the slide.

The majority of glass plates are negatives of book illustrations, although there are glass plates for most of the photographs related to the Tallulah Falls company.