Annie Downs Clark is in the center - just left of doorway. The sign on the building announcing “Beautiful Stereopticon Views” does not refer to stereograph or stereoscopic views, viewed through a viewer held in one’s hand. "Beautiful Stereopticon Views" - "The word "stereopticon" is frequently confused with "stereograph" and "stereoscope," but has nothing to do with either. The "Stereopticon" was a single lensed device to project lantern slides - transparent pictures on glass used for public lectures - we know it as a "slide show" in the Kodachrome era. The powerful light to project the image was generated by the same type of gas as miners used for their lamps. The event being advertised was an educational event probably showing slides of exotic places that most people from Southwest Harbor would never see except in pictures." - Weston J. Naef - August 2008.
Description: Annie Downs Clark is in the center - just left of doorway. The sign on the building announcing “Beautiful Stereopticon Views” does not refer to stereograph or stereoscopic views, viewed through a viewer held in one’s hand. "Beautiful Stereopticon Views" - "The word "stereopticon" is frequently confused with "stereograph" and "stereoscope," but has nothing to do with either. The "Stereopticon" was a single lensed device to project lantern slides - transparent pictures on glass used for public lectures - we know it as a "slide show" in the Kodachrome era. The powerful light to project the image was generated by the same type of gas as miners used for their lamps. The event being advertised was an educational event probably showing slides of exotic places that most people from Southwest Harbor would never see except in pictures." - Weston J. Naef - August 2008. [show more]
Archivists surmise that this photograph is Florence Clark from a comparison of this image with others of her and from the fact that the photograph was in an old collection of Clark family photographs from this branch of the family. The photograph was probably taken near the time of her marriage to Clarence.
Description: Archivists surmise that this photograph is Florence Clark from a comparison of this image with others of her and from the fact that the photograph was in an old collection of Clark family photographs from this branch of the family. The photograph was probably taken near the time of her marriage to Clarence.
This photograph was the one used for the crayon portrait of Roderick Pepper Clark, item 12015. The two images are the only ones in the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive of an original photograph and the crayon portrait made from it.
Description: This photograph was the one used for the crayon portrait of Roderick Pepper Clark, item 12015. The two images are the only ones in the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive of an original photograph and the crayon portrait made from it.