Gerald W. Williams Lantern Slides Collection, circa 1900s-1930s
The Gerald W. Williams Lantern Slides Collection consists of lantern slides assembled and acquired by Williams in the course of his work as a Forest Service sociologist and historian and due to his avocational interest in the history of forestry and the Pacific Northwest region. The slides depict forests and forest operations; landscapes and scenery; and birds, wildlife, and plants. The collection includes advertisements for local businesses in the McKenzie River area. Gerald Williams worked for the U.S. Forest Service from 1979 to 2005 as a sociologist (1979-1998) and historian (1998-2005).
Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
Container List
- Series 1: Forest Operations and Trees, circa 1900s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 1 consists of 29 lantern slides depicting trees, forests, logging, and milling operations.
- Box-Item 1.01: Splash Dam Middle Fork of Little River Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 14039
- Box-Item 1.02: Cutting Small Branches From Fell Spruce Add to Shelf
Photographer: Bickmore
Slide number: 5524
- Box-Item 1.03: Fir Reproduction from Old Cuttings Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 59461
- Box-Item 1.04: Art Blakely Saw Mill Add to Shelf
Photographer: Pinchot
Slide number: 936
- Box-Item 1.05: Hauling Logs by Mule Team Add to Shelf
Photographer: Block
Slide number: 40093
- Box-Item 1.06: Clearing in Potato Field. 5 Miles Below Hot Springs Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 831
- Box-Item 1.07: General Forest Add to Shelf
Photographer: Lindsey
Slide number: 12336
- Box-Item 1.08: Defective Old Chestnut, in Chestnut Coppice Add to Shelf
Photographer: Foley
Slide number: 20310
- Box-Item 1.09: Logging Equipment in the Forest Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 1386
- Box-Item 1.10: Monterey Cypress; Man near an Orchard Add to Shelf
Photographer: Gaskill
Slide number: 4832
- Box-Item 1.11: In a Virgin Douglas Fir Forest Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Slide number: 95451
- Box-Item 1.12: Yellow Pine Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 40019
- Box-Item 1.13: Terror of 50 Year Old White Pine Nation Add to Shelf
Photographer: Kempton
Slide number: 35798
- Box-Item 1.14: Hauling Logs by Steel Cable Add to Shelf
Photographer: Plummer
Slide number: 27594
- Box-Item 1.15: Great Trees in the Northwest, Showing a Method of Felling Add to Shelf
Source: Keystone View Company
Slide number: 29234
- Box-Item 1.16: Regulation Ax Add to Shelf
Photographer: Pinchot
Slide number: 33794
- Box-Item 1.17: A Forest Destroyed by Fire in Three hours Add to Shelf
Source: Keystone View Company
Slide number: 22198
- Box-Item 1.18: Successful Seed Felling in India; Longleaf Pine Forest Add to Shelf
Photographer: Cleadow
Slide number: 8353
- Box-Item 1.19: Tree Generations of Chestnut Add to Shelf
Photographer: Zon
Slide number: 28975
- Box-Item 1.20: Tulip Tree Sprouts Add to Shelf
Photographer: Foley
Slide number: 20312
- Box-Item 1.21: Lodgepole Pines Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.22: Tulip Tree 54" On Stump Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 1319
- Box-Item 1.23: Mill of the Union Lumber Company Add to Shelf
Photographer: Fisher
Slide number: 4187
- Box-Item 1.24: Tulip-Poplar Peeled for Pulp Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.25: Western Hemlock Roots on Fallen Douglas Spruce Exposed by Fire Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.26: Sugar Pine Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 3.01: Young Mandan Belt (6 Years Old); Irrigated Garden Keeps Dust Out of the House on Farm of M.J. Campbell Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Denton, Montana
Slide number: 291045
Notes: Slide is cracked
Image is available online.
- Box-Item 3.02: Rolling a Log onto the Timber Slide Add to Shelf
Slide number: 2026
Note: Slide is cracked
Image is available online.
- Box-Item 3.03: Forest Ranger and his Family Add to Shelf
Location: Northern California
Slide number: 31
Note: Slide is cracked
Image is available online.
- Series 2: Landscapes and Scenery, circa 1900s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 2 consists of 56 lantern slides depicting landscapes and scenery. Many of the images are of Oregon landmarks including the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Hood, and Crater Lake.
- Box-Item 1.27: The Pinnacles (200 ft.) Add to Shelf
- Perhaps at Crater Lake.
- Box-Item 1.28: "Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste" statue in Washington Park Add to Shelf
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Box-Item 1.29: "Coming of the White Man" statue in Washington Park Add to Shelf
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Box-Item 1.30: Riding Trail Add to Shelf
Photographer: Arthur M. Prentiss
Slide number: 32973
- Box-Item 1.31: Roundabout by the Beach Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.32: Aerial View of a City Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.33: River Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.34: River Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.35: River Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.36: Herd of Sheep Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.37: Herd of Sheep Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.38: Bridal Veil Falls Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.39: Yellow Pine Add to Shelf
- Location: Central Oregon
- Box-Item 1.40: Wau-kee-na Falls Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.41: Looking up River from Crown Point Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.42: Tumwater Falls at Celilo Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.43: Heron Rookery toward Linnton Skyline Road Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.44: A Perfect Reflection Add to Shelf
- Location: Crater Lake
- Box-Item 1.45: Andesite Zigzag Mountains Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.46: Mount Hood near Phlox Point Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.47: Mount Hood Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.48: Three Arch Rocks Add to Shelf
- Location: Oceanside, Oregon
- Box-Item 1.49: Multnomah Falls (670 ft. and 80 ft.) Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 12
- Box-Item 1.50: River Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.51: Highway - Castle Rock in Distance Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 20
- Box-Item 1.52: St. Peters Dome Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.53: Mt. Hood at a Distance Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.54: Basaltic Column Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 8
- Box-Item 1.55: Sheperd's Dell Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.56: Sunset on the Columbia River Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.57: Icicles over 100 Feet at Multnomah Falls Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.58: Andesite Zig Zag Mountains Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.59: Phlox at Mt. Hood Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.60: Multnomah Falls Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.61: Cascade Locks Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 13
- Box-Item 1.62: Horsetail Falls Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.63: McKenzie River Highway 1920s Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.64: Sheep Grazing on Point of Ridge, Lower Portion of Rincon la Josa National Forest Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Slide number: 910828
- Box-Item 1.65: Yucca mohavensis Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Kingman, Arizona
Slide number: 392562
- Box-Item 1.66: Entrance to the Sacramento Municipal Camp Ground at Sayles Flat, El Dorado National Forest Add to Shelf
Source: School of Forestry, Moscow, Idaho
Slide number: 158146
- Box-Item 1.67: Petrified Forest Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
Location: Arizona
Slide number: 6148
- Box-Item 1.68: The Natural Bridge Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood
Location: Rockbridge, Co.
Slide number: 5656
- Box-Item 1.69: Marshall Pass (10,856 ft.) Continental Divide Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood
Location: SE to Mt. Antero, Colorado
Slide number: 10631
- Box-Item 1.70: Sunset at Lake St, Mary in Glacier National Park Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.71: Beaver Dam in Estes Park, Colorado Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.72: Cottages at Municipal Camp, Land Leased by the City of Los Angeles from the Forest Service Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Angeles National Forest
Slide number: 33376A
- Box-Item 1.73: Mountain Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.74: Forest Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.75: Forest Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.76: Cactus Scene Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 1.77: Mountains Add to Shelf
Publisher: Riley Optical Inst. Co. Inc.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Slide number: 14647
- Box-Item 1.78: Farm Equipment being Pulled by Horses Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 31
- Box-Item 1.79: Logs Loaded onto Railroad Cars Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 11
- Box-Item 1.80: Seining Chinook Salmon Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood
Location: Columbia River, Oregon
Slide number: 6236
- Box-Item 3.04: Thumb Needle Basaltic Column Add to Shelf
Perhaps in the Columbia River Gorge. Note: Cracked slide
Image is available online.
- Box-Item 3.05: Mt. Adams from Mt. Rainier Add to Shelf
Publisher: Putnam and Valentine Photo
Note: Cracked slide
Image is available online.
- Series 3: Wildlife, Plants, and Flowers, circa 1900s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 3 consists of 45 lantern slides of birds, plants and wildlife. Several of the bird photographs were taken at Malheur or Klamath. Also of note are several images made by Herman T. Bohlman. This series also includes portrait photographs of naturalists and group photographs of individuals on nature trips.
- Box-Item 1.81: Black Crowned Night Heron Add to Shelf
Publisher: Weister Co.
Slide Number: 54
- Box-Item 1.82: Forster's Tern Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 30
- Box-Item 1.83: Blue Heron Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 53
- Box-Folder 1.84: Pelican Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 78
- Box-Folder 1.85: Blue Heron Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 52
- Box-Folder 1.86: Pelicans Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 80
- Box-Folder 1.87: Red-tailed Hawk Add to Shelf
- Photographer: H.T. Bohlman
- Box-Item 1.88: Caspain Tern Add to Shelf
Photographer; H.T. Bohlman
Slide number: 74
- Box-Item 1.89: Unidentified Black and White Bird Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 34
- Box-Item 1.90: Seagull Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 60
- Box-Item 1.91: Cormorant Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 33
- Box-Item 1.92: Western Grebe Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 60
- Box-Item 1.93: Pelican Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 93
- Box-Item 1.94: White Faced Ibis Add to Shelf
- Slide number: 48
- Box-Item 1.95: Frog and Dead Bird Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.01: Unidentified Birds Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.02: Unidentified Bird Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.03: California Kingsnake Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.04: Scenery with Small Unidentified Birds in Foreground Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.05: Kingsnake Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.06: Hawk Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.07: Unidentified Bird Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.08: California Kingsnake Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.09: Kingsnake Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.10: Frog and Dead Bird Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.11: Ruffled Grouse Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Northwestern Admiralty Island, Alaska
Slide number: 393363
- Box-Item 2.12: Mearns Quail near Fresco River Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Slide number: 26312A
- Box-Item 2.13: Quail on a Nest Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Essex, Iowa
Slide number: X225
- Box-Item 2.14: Young Girl Holding Snakes Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.15: Unidentified Wild Cat Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.16: Unidentified Wild Cat Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.17: Young Girl Holding Snakes Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.18: Ducks on a Beach Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.19: Dr. Louis F. Henderson Portrait Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.20: Dr. Louis F. Henderson Portrait Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.21: Dr. Menzies Portrait Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.22: Dr. Menzies Portrait Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.23: Group Photo Outdoors Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.24: Audubon Headquarters Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.25: William S. Raker and Martin Gorman, Botanist Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.26: Oregon Audubon Flower Trip Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.27: Unnamed Plants and Berries Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.28: Rydberg Clover. Trifolium rydberg Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Slide number: X408
- Box-Item 2.29: Unnamed Flowering Plant Add to Shelf
- Photographer: Sowell-Simon Studio
- Box-Item 2.30: Unnamed Flowering Plant Add to Shelf
- Photographer: Sowell-Simon Studio
- Series 4: Advertisements for McKenzie River Area Local Businesses, circa 1920s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 4 consists of advertisements published by the Kansas City Slide Co. These were stock slides that had been customized for local businesses and were likely used during intermissions at movie theaters. The series includes 26 lantern slides.
- Box-Item 2.31: Advertisement for L.A. Romberg Plumbing Add to Shelf
- Location: McKenzie Bridge
- Box-Item 2.32: Advertisement for Blue McKenzie Lodge Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.33: Advertisement for Riverview Lodge Add to Shelf
- Location: McKenzie
- Box-Item 2.34: Advertisement for Lauer's McKenzie Bridge Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.35: Advertisement for Bob's Cabinet Shop Add to Shelf
- Location: Leaburg, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.36: Advertisement for Tommy's Gateway Service Add to Shelf
- Location: Blue River, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.37: Advertisement for Reg. & Faye Taylor Proprietors Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.38: Advertisement for Phil's Phine Phoods Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.39: Advertisement for J. C. Wycoff Garage Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.40: Advertisement for Bob's Cabinet Shop Add to Shelf
- Location: Leaburg, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.41: Advertisement for Helen's Hobby Hut Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.42: Advertisement for W & S Fuel Co. Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.43: Advertisement for Lucille's Shell Work Add to Shelf
- Location: Vida, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.44: Advertisement for Bob Richardson Cabinet Work Add to Shelf
- Location: McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.45: Advertisement for Osborn's Lockers Add to Shelf
- Location: Vida, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.46: Advertisement for Frankys McKenzie Village Café Add to Shelf
- Location: Vida, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.47: Advertisement for Glen H. Horne Fire Insurance Add to Shelf
- Location: Blue River, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.48: Advertisement for Osborn's Food Lockers Add to Shelf
- Location: Vida, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.49: Advertisement for Blue River Theatre Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.50: Advertisement for Leaburg Cafe Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.51: Advertisement for Cascade Resort Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.52: Advertisement for Belknap Springs Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.53: Advertisement for Blue River Automotive and Machine Co. Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.54: Advertisement for Keller's Store Add to Shelf
- Location: Vida, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.55: Advertisement for Blue River Body and Fender Shop Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.56: Advertisement for C.D. Sikes, Stainless Steel Dealer Add to Shelf
- Location: Finn Rock, Oregon
- Series 5: American Military, Government, and War Propaganda, circa 1900s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 5 consists of 15 lantern slides depicting landmark federal buildings in Washington, D.C.; war-time advertisements; and German ships.
- Box-Item 2.57: Union Troops Returning Add to Shelf
- Source: Education Museum
- Box-Item 2.58: U.S. Money Being Printed - Bureau of Engraving Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood
Location: Washington D.C.
Slide number: 140-11146
- Box-Item 2.59: Congressional Library Add to Shelf
Publisher: Keystone View Co. Factories
Location: Washington D.C.
Slide number: 95
- Box-Item 2.60: White House Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.61: Supreme Court Room Add to Shelf
Location: Washington D.C.
Slide number: 89
- Box-Item 2.62: Advertisement for War Stamps Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.63: Capitol Senate Chamber Add to Shelf
Publisher: Keystone View Co. Factories
Location: Washington D.C.
- Box-Item 2.64: U.S. Food Administration Advertisement for Saving Food During Wartime Add to Shelf
- Publisher: Novelty Slide Co.
- Box-Item 2.65: Snow for Water Supply - Belgica Antarctic Expedition Add to Shelf
Publisher: Keystone View Co. Factories
Slide number: 344
- Box-Item 2.66: Windward and Eric-Peary Expedition to Greenland, 1901 Add to Shelf
Publisher: Keystone View Co. Factories
Slide number: 342
- Box-Item 2.67: German Ship Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.68: German Ship Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.69: German Ship Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.70: German Ship Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.71: German Ship Add to Shelf
- Series 6: Diagrams, Illustrations, and People, circa 1900s-1930s Add to Shelf
- Series 6 consists of 13 lantern slides of various topics that may have been used for teaching or entertainment. Of special note is an image of salmon fishing on Puget Sound.
- Box-Item 2.72: Seal of the State of Oregon Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.73: YMCA Camp Group Photograph Add to Shelf
- Location: Detroit, Oregon
- Box-Item 2.74: Article entitled "How the Horse Has Grown in 6 Million Years" Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.75: Slide with Bird Beak and Talon Types Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.76: Bird Diagram Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.77: Group of College Girls in Caverns Add to Shelf
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Location: New Market, Virginia, on Highway U.S. No. 11
Slide number: 338756
- Box-Item 2.78: Poem with Illustration Add to Shelf
Publisher: Quality Slide Co.
Slide number: 2
- Box-Item 2.79: Poem with Illustration Add to Shelf
Publisher: Quality Slide Co.
Slide number: 3
- Box-Item 2.80: Hudson's Bay Company Crest Add to Shelf
- Box-Item 2.81: Neath Old Cherry Tree Add to Shelf
Artist: Scott and Van Atlena
Slide number: 3
- Box-Item 2.82: Couple Sitting in Nature Add to Shelf
- Artist: Scott and Van Atlena
- Box-Item 2.83: Brailing-Taking Salmon from the Trap Add to Shelf
Publisher: Underwood & Underwood
Location: Puget Sound
Slide number: 6229
- Box-Item 2.84: Cutting Snow Blocks for Igloo Add to Shelf
Source: Educational Museum
Slide number: 1080