VINTAGE YELLOWSTONE CASTLE GYSER MAGIC LANTERN SLIDE c. 1910

Description

Up for bid is a vintage hand-tinted color glass magic lantern slide entitled
"Castle Geyser with clouds, Yellowstone
"
. The photo shows the Castle formation with three early tourists at its base. The slide is in the 4" x 3.25 format, is in excellent condition, and was produced by F. H. Maude, Los Angeles, CA.
Fredrick H. Maude (1858-1959) was an English-born photographer, who trained as a medical doctor in Scotland and London before immigrating to the United States in 1891.  During the 1890s he traveled and photographed throughout the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Southern California.  His best-known work was in the American Southwest in the late 1890s and very early twentieth century, and many of his photographs from that period are archived at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and at Stanford University. By 1900 Maude had established his studio in Los Angeles, where he also managed the Pacific Stereopticon Co., a glass lantern slide rental company, until the 1920s.