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Series I: Lantern Slides

Scope and Contents

Dimensions of all lantern slides are 3.25" by 4". They were all produced at the Excelsior Illustrating Co., 219 Sixth Ave., N. Y. City.

[A boy watering plants with a hose.]

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[A girl weeding a row of vegetables.]

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[A group of children with shovels and a wheelbarrow.]

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[An unidentified city official holding a basket of greens and vegetable.]

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[Two students harvesting corn with a tall basket of kale in the foreground.]

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[A composite slide combining a larger group shot of children among vegetable patches and a smaller insert depicting a teacher with five schoolgirls.]

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[Vegetable patches with small groups of school children among them.]

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[The facade of Betsy Head Playground central building with students and teachers in front of it.]

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[An internal wall decorated with framed specimens of plants and insects.]

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[A group of children with harvest baskets in front of them.]

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[A boy and a girl tending to the crops.]

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[A group of five boys on a bench with berry baskets. The iron works building is in the background.]

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[A group of students and teachers standing around a patch and watching Mrs. Jane Roth who appears to be teaching about planting.]

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[A fragment of the kitchen with a set table.]

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[Two girls and a boy with their crops in front of a larger group of students.]

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[Students lining along the vegetable rows with a school building in the background.]

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[Students among the vegetable rows with parts of the neighborhood visible in the background.]

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[Children working in the vegetable garden with the Betsy Head Playground central building in the background.]

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[Three schoolboys standing around a table outside, one is holding a pencil.]

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[A group of students working in the vegetable garden; the school building is visible in the back.]

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[A group portrait of students and a teacher; students display their radish crops.]

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[Freshly planted vegetable patches with identifying labels. A group of students is visible on the left, and the school building on the back.]

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[Four schoolgirls weaving baskets.]

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[A group portrait of seven schoolgirls; the girls in the front row appear to embroider napkins or towels.]

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[Children with watering cans tending to their vegetable patches.]

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[A young barefoot boy with a wheelbarrow and a shovel.]

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