Thursday, October 10, 2024
6 - 7:30pm at the Wagner

Sit back and enjoy as as representatives from seven different regional cultural institutions use lantern slides to travel over and around the Swiss Alps; explore Palestine through the eyes of Khalil Raad, “Palestine’s first Arab photographer”; view hand-colored images of Philadelphia gardens while learning about the pioneering women who created them; survey early twentieth century insects of the Western United States; and so much more!

Thursday, October 19, 2023
6 - 7:30pm at the Wagner

Celebrate Archives Month Philly at the Wagner as we showcase glass lantern slides from our own collection as well as the special collections of: the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the American Philosophical Society, The Historical Society of Frankford, the Penn Museum, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Wednesday October 12, 2022
6 - 7:30

Predating the motion picture, lantern slides were used for entertainment and to illustrate educational programs. The Philadelphia Lantern Slide Salon will be held in the Wagner’s Victorian-era lecture hall using an historic lantern projector. Please join us for a rare treat as we revive an old technology in order to see culturally significant lantern slide collections from the libraries and archives of Philadelphia’s most distinguished institutions.

Wednesday October 20, 2021
6:30 - 8pm

Join us for an evening of illuminating images from three Philadelphia area archives and the stories they bring to light. The presentations will include “Two Women, One Garden: Selections from the Castaña Portfolio,” “Old Blockley: A Glimpse Into a Public Hospital at the Turn of the Century,” and “The Poetry and Science of Botanical Instruction at the Wagner Free Institute of Science.”