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Vtg. Asahel CURTIS Magic Lantern Glass Slide-Calif. Coast BIG TREES, Redwoods
Vtg. Asahel CURTIS Magic Lantern Glass Slide-Calif. Coast BIG TREES, Redwoods
Vtg. Asahel CURTIS Magic Lantern Glass Slide-Calif. Coast BIG TREES, Redwoods
Vtg. Asahel CURTIS Magic Lantern Glass Slide-Calif. Coast BIG TREES, Redwoods

Vtg. Asahel CURTIS Magic Lantern Glass Slide-Calif. Coast BIG TREES, Redwoods

$ 7.91

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Region of Origin: USA
  • Date of Creation: 1910-1919
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Vintage: Yes
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1924
  • Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
  • Size Type/Largest Dimension: ACEO, Art Card (2.5" x 3.5")
  • Condition: Good vintage condition.
  • Modified Item: No
  • Subject: Landscape
  • Antique: Yes
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Framing: Unframed
  • Signed: Yes
  • Color: Color
  • Photo Type: Magic Lantern Slide
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller

    Description

    Vintage Asahel Curtis Magic Lantern Glass Slide of California Coast Big Trees, Redwoods. This hand colored glass slide is in good condition.  It has a sticker on the side from Curtis's studio, it says: Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photography, 625 Colman Block, Seattle. The other side has the negative number 47526.
    The slide is crisp & clear & beautifully hand tinted. It's signed & numbered by Curtis.  The glass measures 4" x 3 1/4", the image is 2 3/8" x 2 3/4".  The image is of a man standing leaning against a Big Tree in a grove of California coast redwoods. I don't know where it was taken.
    Asahel Curtis was born in Minnesota in 1874, the family moved to Puget Sound area of Washington State in 1888. His older brother Edward S. Curtis, opened a photo studio in Seattle in 1892, and Asahel began working there in 1895.  He went to the Klondike in 1897 to take photographs for the studio. Differences over credit for this work later led to a break with his brother. By 1901 Asahel Curtis had joined with scenic photographer William P. Romans to form Curtis & Romans Studio. After a brief period in San Francisco & Tacoma, working sometimes as a photoengraver, Curtis returned to Seattle as a newspaper photographer.  From 1907-1911, he worked for Romans Photographic Co. becoming president & manger of the firm. A partnership with Walter Miller as Curtis & Miller lasted for several years before Curtis returned to Romans.  In 1920, this became the Asahel Curtis Photo Co., under which name it operated until his death in 1941. Curtis was an active outdoorsman & mountaineer, an advocate of roads & highways & instrumental in the development of Mt. Rainier National Park, interests which are reflected in his photography.  His photographs provide one of the most valuable photographic records of Seattle, Washington State, Alaska and the Klondike, covering a period from the 1850's until 1940.  This is a stunning Curtis glass slide image for any California Redwoods or Magic Lantern glass slide collector.  Don't miss out on it.
    ***From a smoke free environment. Be sure to check out the other glass slides that I have listed.***
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