New York State Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction Registers of Accessioned and Classified Negatives

Numerical by negative number.

These volumes contain a record of images accepted for use in the loan collection of educational lantern slides. Each negative received was assigned a preliminary number (preceded by an "X"), and a test lantern slide was made and assigned the same preliminary number. If the image was accepted for use in the loan collection it was assigned a negative number, classified by subject and assigned a call number, and entered in the accession register.

Each entry in the registers provides the following information about the image: negative number (size of the negative corresponds to alphabetic prefix: "A" = 6 1/2" by 8 1/2", "B" = 5" by 7", "C" = 4" by 5", "D" = 11" by 14", and no alphabetic prefix = 8" by 10"); call number; title; location; date negative was made; source and maker of negative; date negative was acquired; preliminary number ("makers number"); size of negative; and name of maker of colored sample. If an image was withdrawn from use the register entry is annotated "DO NOT USE"; if the negative was destroyed, the entry is annotated to this effect. If a colored sample slide was made, the entry is annotated with the name of the person or institution who colored the sample. Some entries are also annotated with the study or list number in which the slide appeared, cross references to other images substituted for the original, and notes regarding the loss or breakage of the negative.

A3045Series A3045, Instructional lantern slides

A3132Series A3132, Subject card indexes to instructional photographic images

A3134Series A3134, Negatives and positive transparencies of instructional photographic images

A3135Series A3135, Published study guides and lists of educational lantern slides and

A4199Series A4199, Special lantern slide sets, [ca. 1880-1934] contain related records.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.