Port Clinton Lantern Slides collection

This collection of lantern slides contains numerous views of the city of Port Clinton, with additional slides of historic figures, monuments, artifacts, documents, and costumes. The grouping also includes some building diagrams of the Port Clinton Junior High School. While the material is of unknown origin, it was probably assembled as a teaching aid at the Port Clinton High School.

Of particular note in the scenes of Port Clinton are views of the harbor area with small boats and a grain elevator, a picture of the Port Clinton Fire Department, with hose reels in front of the Station, workers in the yard of a Port Clinton sawmill, a railroad work crew with a Lakeshore and Michigan Southern freight car in the background, a dock scene with a ship under construction, and a scene on Madison and 2nd Streets with wagons gathered for a peach auction.

The quality of the slides varies, with some emulsion flaking. Those slides with good images can produce fairly clear prints. Copy negatives and prints were made for the first six slides of the collection.