INVENTORY OF THE LANTERN SLIDE COLLECTION SOUTHERN BAPTIST HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES AR 923 Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives April, 2015 1
Lantern Slide Collection AR 923 SUMMARY Main Entry Lantern Slide Collection. Date Span: 1900 1935 Abstract The collection of lantern slides visually documents, primarily, the work of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The collection does include some images related to international missions. The slides were used by agents and missionaries to raise money for missions, while documenting the work of the HMB. That work includes Cuba, Panama, New Orleans, deaf work, mountain and rural missions, Indian missions, work with ethnics and immigrants, and images of churches. Size: 402 slides (6 boxes) Collection #: AR 923 Description The collection of 402 distinctive lantern slides documents primarily the work and mission of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The collection includes numerous images of churches and mission work in America and the Caribbean. The collection includes two slide program used by the Home Mission Board to inform Baptists of the work of home missions. These slide programs include scripts that accompanied the lantern slides. The collection is divided into subject series including the following: A. Around the Gulf of Mexico with the Gospel (slide show with script) B. Baptisms C. Buildings (mostly unidentified) D. Churches E. Cuba F. Cuba: Our next door neighbor (slide show) G. Deaf missions H. Evangelistic meetings/methods I. Farm life J. Foreign missions K. French missions L. Groups (some unidentified) 2
M. Hymns N. Indian missions O. Individuals P. Italian missions Q. Mexican missions R. Monuments S. Mountain missions T. New Orleans missions U. Panama V. Publications W. Rural missions X. Scenic Y. Small groups Z. Street scenes Lantern slides are positive images printed onto glass with a second piece of glass to protect the emulsion side of the glass plate, protecting the image. Many of the slides have been colorized, though the images are black and white prints. The majority of the slides are in good condition though some are broken and some have lost the protective glass covering the emulsion. All of the slides have been cleaned with some mending of the glass to keep the pieces together. Many of the slides have no descriptive or very limited information. Several of the slides related to Cuba and Panama are scenic in nature. Arrangement The slides are arranged in alphabetical order by series and alphabetically by item title within the series. The two-slide program follows the order of the scripted program. Provenance The majority of the slides were transferred from the Home Mission Board from 1995 2014. Preferred Citation Lantern Slide Collection, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee Access Restrictions None Subject Terms Baptists Cuba Baptists Panama Baptists Missions Missions Cuba Missions Panama Mountain Missions 3
Home Missions Church work with deaf history Hispanic Americans Missions Lantern slides Churches, Baptist Rural churches Related Material Homer Grice Papers, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. AR 795-576 Photograph Collection, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee (self indexed collection). Container List Box 1 A. Around the Gulf of Mexico with the Gospel 1.1 Scenic Slide Show, #36 1.2 View from San Juan Hill, #2076 1.3 Catholic Church 1.4 Baptist missionaries. J. F. Plainfield and six Italian deacons Tampa, FL, #2480 1.5 Italian mission V. B. S., #36 1.6 Italian mission G. A. girls, #397 1.7 French mission LA, #2478 1.8 Fishermen and trappers Red River, #2400 1.9 French missions, #2489 1.10 French missions R Lucian Smith, apostle to the French, #4 1.11 French Baptist church LA, #2473 1.12 Philippino man 1.13 Acadia Academy French missions, #1002 1.14 Catholic church, #2325 1.15 French missions baptisms, #2497 1.16 New Orleans missions. L J. W. Newbrough (HMB) in front of rescue mission, #2285 1.17 New Orleans missions rescue mission, #2422 1.18 New Orleans missions. Baptist Bible Institute work with children, #2351 1.19 French mission work on Red River, #2402 1.20 French missions Chapel on Red River bottom, #2331 1.21 Mexican missions children in Laredo, TX, #295 1.22 Mexican missions Mexican young people BYPU at Laredo, #278 1.23 Mexican missions Laredo church dinner for newsboys, #294 1.24 Mexican missions typical Mexican section of Laredo with missionaries and Mexican family, #2116 4
1.25 Immanuel Baptist Church, San Antonio Sunday school of Mexican Baptist mission, #2617 1.26 Mexican missions Waco Mexican kindergarten girl, #2125 1.27 Mexican missions Church, Pearsall, TX, #273 1.28 Mexican missions Pearsall, TX first family to hear the gospel, #2118 1.29 Mexican missions BYPU workers, #238 1.30 Mexican missions pastor and Sunday school superintendent in Austin, #268 1.31 Mexican missions Austin, TX BYPU group, #316 1.32 Mexican missions Bastrop, Texas Mexican Baptist Institute Mexican church group, #263 1.33 Mexican missions Cradle Roll Bastrop Mexican Baptist Church 1.34 Mexican missions Mayfield, TX group, #261 1.35 Mexican missions Baptism, #225 1.36 Evangelist Bro. Mirele, #2092 1.37 Cuba mission in Tampa, FL Intermediate BYPU 1.38 Cuban missions in Tampa, FL church pulpit One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism B. Baptisms 1.39 Baptism Creek baptism 1.40 Baptism River baptism in town 1.41 Baptism River baptism with people on bank 1.42 Baptism River with people on bank C. Buildings 1.43 Buildings Adobe structure 1.44 Buildings Building with snow 1.45 Buildings Government building 1.46 Buildings Interior 1.47 Buildings Shed (4 copies) 1.48 Buildings School 1.49 Buildings School/church 1.50 Buildings Unidentified 1.51 Buildings Unidentified Box 2 D. Churches 2.1 Churches Alabama Marion Siloam BC 2.2 Churches Damaged Brinkley, Ark Baptist church, 1909 2.3 Churches Arkansas Brinkley Brinkley, BC, ca 1915 2.4 Churches Arkansas Fayetteville FBC, ca 1915 2.5 Churches Arkansas Little Rock Second Baptist Architectural rendering 2.6 Churches Georgia Thomasville FBC 2.7 Churches LA New Orleans Central BC 5
2.8 Churches LA New Orleans Coliseum BC 2.9 Churches LA New Orleans First Baptist Church 2.10 Churches LA New Orleans FBC 2.11 Churches LA New Orleans St. Charles Ave. BC, ca 1915 2.12 Churches LA New Orleans Valence St. BC, ca 1915 2.13 Churches New Mexico Cone Church under construction 2.14 Churches Oklahoma Lawton FBC 2.15 Churches Oklahoma Okla. City White Temple, ca1915 2.16 Churches OK Shawnee FBC 2.17 Churches SC Brookland 2.18 Churches SC FBC Charleston 2.19 Churches Texas Ft. Worth Gaston Ave. Baptist Vacation Bible School, ca 1920 2.20 Churches Texas Houston FBC, ca 1915 2.21 Churches Texas Houston Baptist churches 2.22 Churches Camp church, ca 1917 2.23 Churches Damages Baptist churches 2.24 Churches Saloon church 2.25 Churches Sunday School children unknown, ca 1925 2.26 Churches Swedish Baptist Church, 1 st 2.27 Churches Unknown Building and members 2.28 Churches Unknown with people 2.29 Churches Unknown 2.30 Churches Unknown 2.31 Churches Unknown 2.32 Churches Unknown 2.33 Churches Unknown 2.34 Churches Unknown 2.35 Churches Unknown 2.36 Churches Unknown West End Baptist Church? 2.37 Churches Unknown 2.38 Churches Unknown four churches 2.39 Churches Unknown 2.40 Churches Unknown 2.41 Churches Unknown 2.42 Churches Unknown 2.43 Churches Unknown 2.44 Churches Unknown E. Cuba 2.45 Cuba Boys and goats 2.46 Cuba Building 2.47 Cuba Building 2.48 Cuba Building 2.49 Cuba Building 2.50 Cuba Calvary Church Sunbeams 6
2.51 Cuba Home Missions Cardenas church, ca 1915 2.52 Cuba Cathedral Havana 2.53 Cuba Cemetery 2.54 Cuba Central Park - Havana 2.55 Cuba Church 2.56 Cuba Church 2.57 Cuba Country Road, ca 1915 2.58 Cuba Couple 2.59 Cuba Cova, J. V. 2.60 Cuba Home Missions Fountain Color Park, Havana, ca 1915 2.61 Cuba Home Missions Havana, ca 1915 2.62 Cuba Havana Girls 2.63 Cuba Home Missions Havana Pres. Palace, ca 1915 2.64 Cuba Havana Scenic 2.65 Cuba Havana Scenic 2.66 Cuba Isle of Pines Nueva Gerona 2.67 Cuba Man 2.68 Cuba Man in front of building 2.69 Cuba Man near palm tree 2.70 Cuba Havana Missionaries, 1910 2.71 Cuba Missionaries 2.72 Cuba Missionary couple 2.73 Cuba Monument 2.74 Cuba Havana Moro Castle, ca 1915 Box 3 Cuba 3.1 Cuba Nueva Genona, Cuba 3.2 Cuba Overview of City 3.3 Cuba C. J. Paez 3.4 Cuba Home Missions Palm Ave., ca 1915 3.5 Cuba Home Missions The Prado, ca 1915 3.6 Cuba Boys Group Royal Ambassadors 3.7 Cuba Missions Royal Ambassadors group 3.8 Cuba Home Mission Cuba home and tobacco field in province of Pinar del Rio, ca 1915 3.9 Cuba Santa Clara Cubans 3.10 Cuba Scenic 3.11 Cuba Scenic 3.12 Cuba Scenic 3.13 Cuba Scenic 3.14 Cuba Havana Shipping scene 3.15 Cuba Sunbeam Band 3.16 Cuba Sunbeam Band 3.17 Cuba Sunday School Class Santa Clara, 1910 3.18 Cuba Three women by lake 7
3.19 Cuba Home Missions Wash day, ca 1915 F. Cuba Our next door neighbor slide show 3.20 Cuba Map slide show #1 3.21 Cuba Scenic slide show #2, H2079 3.22 Cuba Bible reading slide show #3, #134 3.23 Cuba Scenic slide show #4, #749 3.24 Cuba Presidential palace slide show #5, #41 3.25 Cuba Baptist temple slide show #6, #108 3.26 Cuba Baptist missionaries slide show #7, #2028 3.27 Cuba Scenic slide show #8, #187 3.28 Cuba Scenic monument Slide show #9, #185 3.29 Cuba Hospital slide show #10, #39 3.30 Cuba Homes Scenic slide show #11, #190 3.31 Cuba Scenic garden slide show #12 3.32 Cuba Public Park slide show #13, #37 3.33 Cuba Scenic circular stairway slide show #14, #93 3.34 Cuba Scenic slide show #15, #86 3.35 Cuba Scenic fan palm slide show #16, #85 3.36 Cuba Scenic Palms slide show #17, #65 3.37 Cuba Catholic Church slide show #18, #2085 3.38 Cuba Seminary student in Cuba missionary pastor slide show #19, #162 3.39 Cuba Baptist Sunday School Teachers with normal manual diplomas, 1930 slide show #20, #2033 3.40 Cuba Cuban Baptist pastor slide show #21, #2048 3.41 Cuba Last group of students to finish seminary before its closing in 1928, due to lack of funds slide show #22, #346 3.42 Cuba Day school students slide show #23 & 25, #147 3.43 Cuba Day school children slide show #24, #2158 3.44 Cuba Woman s work Mildred Matthews & Edel slide show #26, #2067 3.45 Cuba Sunbeam group slide show #27, #2 3.46 Cuba Baptist mother and son slide show #28, #2090 3.47 Cuba Woman & children poverty slide show #29, #13 3.48 Cuba Daily Vacation Bible School in Havana church slide show #30, #2398 3.49 Cuba Rev. Rene Alfonso general evangelist in Havana slide show #31, #2041 3.50 Cuba Baptist orphanage slide show #32, #929 3.51 Cuba Alfredo Cabrera Superintendent of Baptist orphanage slide show #32a, #2037 3.52 Cuba Missionary Ford (Auto) with children slide show #33, #49 3.53 Cuba House church slide shows #34, #8683 3.54 Cuba Baptismal scene slide show #35, 316 3.55 Cuba Cardenas Baptist church slide show #36, #122 8
3.56 Cuba Baseball game slide show #37, #84 3.57 Cuba Traveling hardware store slide show #38, #74 3.58 Cuba Schoolhouse slide show #39, #2087 3.59 Cuba Public square Matanzas slide show #40, #2008 3.60 Cuba Sugar plantation Miss Matthews standing by cane slide show #41, #350 3.61 Cuba Christine Garnett with older woman, Santa Clara slide show #42, #137 3.62 Cuba Young Christian typist slide show #43, slide #153 3.63 Cuba Travelling store keeper and Christian slide show #44, #138 3.64 Cuba Thatched roof church slide show #46, #125 3.65 Cuba Valley of Trinidad River Slide show #47, #99 3.66 Cuba City of Trinidad slide show #48, #96 3.67 Cuba Scenic slide show #49, #50 3.68 Cuba Tobacco farm slide show #50, #175 3.69 Cuba Baptist church and members slide show #51, #116 3.70 Cuba Hilario the bugler and Baptist slide show #52, #117 3.71 Cuba Scenic slide show #53, #2000 3.72 Cuba Sail boat slide show #55 3.73 Cuba Y. W. A. in Santa Clara slide show #56, #139 Box 4 G. Deaf Missions 4.1 Deaf Missions Group 4.2 Deaf Missions Group 4.3 Deaf Missions Group J. W. Michaels H. Evangelistic Meetings/Methods 4.4 Evangelistic Meetings 2 images 4.5 Evangelistic Meetings Home Mission Board 3 images, ca 1915 4.6 Evangelistic Meetings HMB Evangelists with B. D. Gray 4.7 Evangelistic Meetings Meeting in Railway Station 4.8 Evangelistic Meetings Street meeting Birmingham, AL 4.9 Evangelistic Meetings Street Preaching, 1916 4.10 Evangelist Meetings Workplace I. Farm Life 4.11 Farm Life Gathering Corn Oklahoma 4.12 Farm Life Harvesting hay 4.13 Farm Life Men and Oxen 4.14 Farm Life People and Cows 4.15 Farm Life Wagon with settlers 4.16 Farm Life Unknown J. Foreign Missions 4.17 Foreign Missions China Missions Street scene, ca 1910 9
4.18 Foreign Missions China Street scene 4.19 Foreign Missions Japan Baptist Missions (color) 4.20 Foreign Missions Japan Building 4.21 Foreign Missions Japan Scenic 4.22 Foreign Missions Middle East missions K. French Missions 4.23 French Missions Mission workers, ca1930 L. Groups 4.24 Groups Around dinner table 4.25 Groups B.Y.P. U. Birmingham 4.26 Groups Campground 4.27 Groups Children 4.28 Groups Children Panama? 4.29 Groups Church group 4.30 Groups Five images 4.31 Groups Football Team 4.32 Groups Girls group 4.33 Groups Girls organization 4.34 Groups Interior meeting 4.35 Groups Kentucky Preachers School, ca 1925 4.36 Groups Medical facility 4.37 Groups Men and children 4.38 Groups Mission school 4.39 Groups Mission school 4.40 Groups Prisoners 4.41 Groups St. Louis 4.42 Groups School 4.43 Groups School 4.44 Groups School group 4.45 Groups School group 4.46 Groups Street scene 4.47 Groups Students 4.48 Groups Unknown 4.49 Groups Unknown 4.50 Groups Unknown 4.51 Groups Unknown 4.52 Groups Unknown 4.53 Groups Young people 4.54 Groups Young people 4.55 Groups Young people, goats M. Hymns 4.56 Hymns Church song 4.57 Hymns Jesus Savior Pilot Me 10
4.58 Hymns Just As I Am 4.59 Hymns Onward Christian Soldiers Box 5 N. Indian Missions 5.1 Indian Missions Baptism Unknown location 5.2 Indian Missions Church and members 5.3 Indian Missions Creek Rev. William Green 5.4 Indian Missions couple 5.5 Indian Missions Dinner on the ground 5.6 Indian Missions Girls group 5.7 Indian Missions Group 5.8 Indian Missions High B, ca 1910 5.9 Indian Missions Indian Home, ca 1910 5.10 Indian Missions Indian on horse 5.11 Indian Missions Love Owco and his children, ca 1915 5.12 Indian Missions Missionary Family 5.13 Indian Missions Otoe Bert Diamond, John Pipestem 5.14 Indian Missions Otoe home 5.15 Indian Missions Oklahoma revival outside 5.16 Indian Missions Osage Round House 5.17 Indian Missions Osage woman 5.18 Indian Missions Scenic 5.19 Indian Missions Pawnee Brendel and tribal council 5.20 Indian Missions Pawnee 5.21 Indian Missions People near building and car 5.22 Indian Missions Two Baptists 5.23 Indian Missions Home Mission Board Two Indians 5.24 Indian Missions Wakeuian and son 5.25 Indian Missions Wichita Indian hut, ca 1915 O. Individuals 5.26 Individuals Mrs. de Cardenas 5.27 Individuals Jaspar de Cardenas 5.28 Individuals Cuban pastor 5.29 Individuals Dunaway and Turner Home Mission Board 5.30 Individuals B. D. Gray Corresponding Secretary Home Mission Board SBC 5.31 Individuals J. B. Lawrence 5.32 Individuals Rev. B. A. Loving 5.33 Individuals Home Mission Board staff (2) E. P. Alldredge 5.34 Individuals Home Mission Board staff 5.35 Individuals Cuba 5.36 Individuals Boy 5.37 Individuals Boy outside 11
5.38 Individuals Boy with dog and rabbit 5.39 Individuals Girl outside 5.40 Individuals Man beside car 5.41 Individuals Man in blanket 5.42 Individuals Man on horse 5.43 Individuals Man outside with walking stick 5.44 Individuals Man unidentified 5.45 Individuals Woman 5.46 Individuals Woman by car and garage 5.47 Individuals Woman holding book 5.48 Individuals Woman in flower garden 5.49 Individuals Woman outside 5.50 Individuals Woman outside 5.51 Individuals Women standing in door P. Italian Missions 5.52 Italian Missions Tampa, Fla Kindergarten Q. Mexican Missions 5.53 Mexican Missions Baptist Spanish Publication House, El Paso, TX 5.54 Mexican Missions Bastrop, TX group 5.55 Mexican Missions Laredo, TX Bridge across Rio Grande 5.56 Mexican Missions Mexican girls, Laredo, TX 5.57 Mexican Missions Mexican home 5.58 Mexican Missions Sunday school Esperanzal 5.59 Mexican Missions Texas R. Monuments 5.60 Monuments Phillip II 5.61 Monuments Unknown 5.62 Monuments Unknown S. Mountain Missions 5.63 Mountain Missions Building 5.64 Mountain Missions Church 5.65 Mountain Missions Mountain Grist Mill 5.66 Mountain Missions House 5.67 Mountain Missions Saluda Mountain, NC 5.68 Mountain Missions Schools Map 5.69 Mountain Missions Schools Magoffin Institute, Sayversville, KY 5.70 Mountain Missions Schools North Greeville Academy 5.71 Mountain Missions Schools Unknown 5.72 Mountain Missions Schools Unknown 5.73 Mountain Missions Schools Unknown, ca 1915 5.74 Mountain Missions Scenic 12
5.75 Mountain Missions Scenic 5.76 Mountain Missions Scenic 5.77 Mountain Missions Scenic Creek 5.78 Mountain Missions Water Box 6 T. New Orleans Missions 6.1 New Orleans Missions Canal Street, ca 1915 6.2 New Orleans Missions Central Baptist Church 6.3 New Orleans Missions Gospel Messenger Wagon Dedication 6.4 New Orleans Missions Rescue Mission U. Panama 6.5 Panama Alligators 6.6 Panama Baptist Church Balboa 6.7 Panama Burying place, ca 1915 6.8 Panama Panama City Cathedral, ca 1915 6.9 Panama Church, ca 1915 6.10 Panama Church 6.11 Panama Church and members 6.12 Panama Country home, ca 1915 6.13 Panama Flood, ca 1915 6.14 Panama Girls Canal Zone 6.15 Panama Group 6.16 Panama Hut 6.17 Panama Panama Canal 6.18 Panama Panama Canal 6.19 Panama Panama City Scenic View 6.20 Panama City Scenic View 6.21 Panama Scenic 6.22 Panama Scenic 6.23 Panama Train and people 6.24 Panama West Indian Children V. Publications 6.25 Publications Home Field Cover 6.26 Publications Home fields Cover 6.27 Publications Kind Words W. Rural Missions 6.28 Rural Missions Building 6.29 Rural Missions Building 6.30 Rural Missions Buildings (2) 6.31 Rural Missions Church 6.32 Rural Missions Church 6.33 Rural Missions Church with Members 13
6.34 Rural Missions Church with Members 6.35 Rural Missions Church with Members 6.36 Rural Missions Churches (2) 6.37 Rural Missions Cemetery 6.38 Rural Missions House 6.39 Rural Missions Scene with cars, church meeting 6.40 Rural Missions Scenic X. Scenic 6.41 Scenic Auto with people 6.42 Scenic Buildings 6.43 Scenic Camp meeting 6.44 Scenic Dam 6.45 Scenic Farmland 6.46 Scenic Forest 6.47 Scenic House 6.48 Scenic Hillside 6.49 Scenic Oil Well Oklahoma 6.50 Scenic Rural 6.51 Scenic Rural 6.52 Scenic Sail Boats 6.53 Scenic Tents Y. Small Groups 6.54 Small Groups Children 6.55 Small Groups Children (2) 6.56 Small Groups Children (3) 6.57 Small Groups Four People 6.58 Small Groups Man and Children 6.59 Small Groups Mother and Children 6.60 Small Groups Women (3) 6.61 Small Groups Women and Children 6.62 Small Groups Woman and Children Z. Street Scenes 6.63 Street Scenes 6.64 Street Scenes Market Laredo, Texas 6.65 Street Scenes People and Animals 6.66 Street Scenes Tents 6.67 Street Scenes - Unknown 14
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