Sydney, Harbor, Australia, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The population of Sydney is 905,907. This is an increases of more than 16 percent in the past ten years. It is the capital of the province of New South Wales an... More
Ireland Rebuilt Bridge, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Throughout the country one can see evidence of the recent civil war. Bridges were blown up by the score. The new white stone section of those indicates the part... More
Horticultural School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Leading in the development of landscape beauty one must recognize the Vilevide horticultural and floral experiment station and school near Charlottenlund. Start... More
Veterinary Department, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The oldest and best known department is the Veterinary. It was founded in 1775 and is the third oldest veterinary college in the world. About 200 of the 500 stu... More
Monument of Liberty for Farmers
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Near the viaduct over the railroad tracks in the heart of the city of Copenhagen there stands a monument which is distinctive of the nation's attitude toward ag... More
Buenos Aires. Shipping and Docks from Adriana Principal, or Customs Ho...
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 1,811,500. Beunos Aires, the capital of the republic, is now the largest city in South America. About one fifth of the entire population of Argentin... More
Philadelphia from Pennsylvania Building
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population in 1920, 1,823,779. (Estimate, 1925, 1,979,364). Philadelphia was founded by the famous Quaker, William Penn. The name "Pennsylvania" means Penn's wo... More
State Steet, Chicago, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "With an estimated population in 1925 of 2999,239, Chicago is the second largest city in the United States, and although it is a thousand miles from the ocean, i... More
Developed Farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "After the place has been established for ten years the shrubbery is developed, trees have grown up along side the house and arbors have been constructed. very o... More
Satsuma Faience, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This Faience, or Fayence, is so called because it is made in Satsuma.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:s... More
Denmark, Grade School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "At the other end of the educational system stands the elementary school. It, as well as the higher institutions of learning, is well equipped for athletics and ... More
Denmark, New farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is, however, more of the new. With the division of the larger estates into small farms hundreds of new farmsteads are being built. It seems that all of th... More
Denmark, Old Mill, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is some of the old as there is in all European countries. Scattered over the country one sees a few of the old wind mills. Some of them are still used for... More
Rio De Janeiro - View of the City Built on a Dozen Hills
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 1,442,000. Rio de Janeiro, the capital with over a million people, is the second largest in South America. Buenos Aires is the largest. Rio is locat... More
Denmark, Peter at Askov, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is no character in the Folk High School work today of greater interest to Americans than Peter Manniche, who has founded an International High School at E... More
Skanderborb Village Street, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Even in the older sections of the villages the buildings, while they may be uneven, have a neatness of appearance. In this there is an attractiveness which dra... More
Denmark, Church at Askov School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "At each of the Folk High Schools the church today has a prominent place. This church building at Askov is used almost wholly by the students and faculty of this... More
Denmark, A Well Kept Place lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "N/A". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 052. .You can find this image by searching for the item num... More
Delivering at Skanderborg Factory
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Auto trucks and wagons of several kinds are mixed in the group which come in early in the forenoon with the pigs for slaughter at the bacon factory. These pigs ... More
Ireland Cobh Harbor, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "From Cobh (or Queenstown) in south-eastern Ireland, for many generations Irish people have been going out to other countries. Almost a thousand years ago missio... More
People shopping at the City Meat Market in Ireland
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cordial spirit is shown at the places of business. Often one sees names which remind one of interesting characters. Meat shops are open to the street as they ar... More
Japanese Woman, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The woman is taught from girlhood to be modest, retiring and obedient as daughter and wife, and as a rule she is almost certain to avoid spinsterhood, so well-p... More
Creamery at Vejen, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "One of the finest and largest of the cooperative butter factories is located at Vejen. It produces great quantities of butter for export. The Danes themselves, ... More
The Hot Springs At Atami. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The pretty little town of Atami, which nestles in the sunshine of the shore of a little artificial-looking bay, has been made famous by the geyser there. Once e... More
Skyscrapers of New York - Egypt
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This picture shows the lower end of Manhattan Island. This is the business and financial center of New York city, and the office building are commonly known as ... More
Panorama of Paris, France, France, 19th century
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 051 019. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Spinning Cotton, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cotton is not a native plant in Japan either. It is said that by chance some seeds were brought from India in the year 799 A.D. and being planted they grew well... More
Denmark, Village Church, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Hiding along on the train one sees in every village the Danish Evangelical Lutheran church. Usually they are white. Always they have these square towers in fron... More
Prague, lantern slide, Italy lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 676,657. Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, is situated in the most productive part of the country. It has become one of the chief industrial an... More
Cattle are Tethered, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On the medium and small sized farms one finds the cows tethered--usually in a straight line across the field. This eliminates the need for fences, it eliminates... More
Berlin, Germany, lantern slide lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Berlin, the capital of Germany, is located on a tributary of the Elbe. This is a city of imposing buildings, broad streets and promenades, and beautiful gardens... More
Front Gate, City Wall, Peking, China
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Peking is a very ancient city. It was the capital of the kingdom of China for 3000 years: for over 800 years it served as the capital of the Republic of China. ... More
Geisha Girl Playing the Samisen
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The geisha or singing girl to the "Western" mind fills out the romantic ideal of modern Japan. To the native she is simply a sublimated waitress with dancing an... More
Frederikssund Bacon Factory, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This cooperative was started in 1894. Now it handles pigs for 4500 members. There are about 50 of these which represent 70 percent of the pig-breeding farmers a... More
Stone Elephants, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 060 030. ..You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol )... More
Denmark, The Grundtvig Folk High School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Of all the Danish schools the ones which have received the greatest consideration by American agricultural leaders are the Peoples (or Folk) High Schools. These... More
Hans Christian Andersen Statue - Book for children
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Rather than a preponderance of military statues as in Germany, one finds through Denmark those which honor leaders in teaching, in writing and in the common eve... More
Principal of the Grundtvig School`
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The outstanding factor in the success of the Danish Fold High Schools so far has been their inspiring type of leadership. They have been capable of discussing b... More
One of Europe's Famous Avenues, Andrassy Strasse, Budapest
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Budapest, the capital of Hungary lies on both banks of the Danube. A number of great bridges join the old city of Buda on the high western bank of the river to ... More
Along the Danube Canal In the Very Heart of Vienna.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The population, 1,868,328, is nearly three hundred thousand less than at the beginning of the Great War. Vienna is the capital and chief city of Austria. It is ... More
Tokyo From Atajo-Yama, Japan. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Though the disastrous earthquake of Sept., 1923, followed by tidal wave and fire practically destroyed Japan's great and beautiful capital, causing a property l... More
Farm Family, lantern slide - Victorian era public domain image
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Nowhere can on find better mannered children or more beautiful home surroundings then on some of these Danish farms.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction ... More
Denmark, Young Farm Man and Woman
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Partly through the influence of the Folk High Schools young farm men and women have started their careers with interest in landscaping, in improved homes, in ne... More
Transplanted Iceland Home, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This structure transplanted from the north country gives one the opportunity to understand more definitely how people have lived with few conveniences and under... More
At the Cooperative Butter Factory
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Of the 206,000 Danish farms about 184,000 are regarded as members of the cooperative dairies. Here at one of them the farmers are bringing in their milk. There ... More
A Typical Scene of Street Life in Cairo, Egypt
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cairo Egypt, the largest city in Africa, has a population of 795,000. It is located at the head of the great delta of the Nile. It is the chief city of Mohammed... More
Birds-Eye View of Naples, Italy
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 780, 220. Naples is the largest city in Italy. It is located near a fertile lowland where a very dense population is supported. the climate is warm ... More
Washing Kimonos, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "After the garment is cleansed it is stretched upon a board and placed in the sun to dry. This process saves ironing". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction D... More
"No Danger" in Costume. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Japanese love the theater, and it is a thoroughly national institution. You will be told in select circles how up to the Restoration in 1868 the theater was... More
A Geisha House, lantern slide - Drawing. Public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "A Geisha House is not generally a large establishment-- six or seven to a dozen Geisha's and half as many musumes make it up. The mother or keeper is generally ... More
Denmark, View of Sweden, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "From the top of this castle one can easily see the shores of Sweden just across the sound. Only once has this Kronberg Castle been in the hands of enemies and t... More
Complete Farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It is on the average sized farms where one can see all the buildings together that the neatness and efficient utility plan of Danish farmers shows off to best a... More
Tokyo, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Tokyo, the capital of the Empire is one of the foremost cities of the Orient. In spite of the terrible destruction wrought by the earthquake of September 1, 19... More
Ireland Weavers' Hall, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "One of the oldest building in Dublin is the Weavers' Hall which was constructed some three centuries ago. It is said that there used to be tow groups in the ind... More
San Francisco Street, City of Mexico
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This picture gives a glimpse of only the business section of the magnificent "city of palaces" -- Mexico City, the capital of the republic. It is located in a F... More
A Farmer and his Wife Weighing and Reeling Silk
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Japan furnishes about 40% of the worlds silk. It is almost as important for the farmer as rice culture. Until recent years China stood first in the world in sil... More
Ireland Rural Home, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Families have occupied some of the homesteads for as many as ten generations. These places may not be large -- in most cases they are quite small.". .Original C... More
A Change of Domicile. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is somewhat different from moving day of an American family, with a van piled high with household goods. In this instance change of homes is not so inconve... More
Library at Askov, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Although a feature of Bishop Grundtvig's philosophy of education was teaching by example and the "living word" yet he was a great student and writer. Libraries ... More
Overlooking the City of Montreal and the Magnificent Victoria Bridge, ...
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 618,500. Montreal has a wonder situation. It is a thousand miles from the Atlantic and is on a great navigable river which is the outlet of the Grea... More
Danish Landscape, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Scattered over the landscape in nearly all sections of Denmark are the attractive farmsteads. Many of them have all the buildings pure white. Always they look ... More
Denmark, Thatch is Home Grown lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the last ten years red tile has supplanted thatch on many of the Danish farm homes. Home grown thatch, however, is needed for repairs to the older roofs.". .... More
Entrance to Lyngby Agricultural Museum
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the museums extensive provision has been made for preserving features of farm life of past generations. This government museum near Lynby is developed for th... More
Bridge of Iwakuni, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 060 005. ..You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol )... More
A Picturesque Stone-Bridge. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "These roads have 346,144 bridges , of which 518 are of iron, 71,278 of stone, 136,860 of wood, the others being of earth, pontoon, etc.". .Original Collection: ... More
Small Holder's School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It was in 1908 that the Small Holder's Union on the island of Fyon established a school near Odense to give training especially for the small farmer and his wif... More
Ireland Start of a Hedge Fence lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The system of fencing for these farms is a most permanent one. Dirt is piled up about two feet and a half high and two feet wide at the bottom. This is sodded o... More
Stores of Fertility, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 044. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Winter Costume, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The costume of women in winter is mostly of silk, coarse or fine according to the means of the wearer. The shoes are raised on pieces of wood, like stilts, abou... More
Ireland Laborer's Home, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Now from the one 1700 acre estate the Land Commission is making about 30 family sized farms. These are being sold to reliable young families who are paying on a... More
The Bund, Hankow, China. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Here is a picture in Hankow of the wide road, or thoroughfare which lies along the river bank and is known as "The Bund". This name is applied both in China and... More
God of Wind, Iyemitsu Temple, Nikko.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is a God of Shinto religion. Shinto has a great array of subsidiary gods--the elementary gods-- the elementary gods, fire, wind, thunder, water, with many ... More
The Barrel Maker, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is one of the important trades of Japan. The average wage of coopers is only about fifty cents a day.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department... More
A Village Waterwheel, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 060 048. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Moscow Looking South, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 1,511,045. Moscow is now the capital of Soviet Russia and is much more centrally located than Leningrad. It is on one of the tributaries of the Volg... More
Religion, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Religion is free in Japan, and in the religious world there is conspicuous friendliness between the members of different creeds and sects. ..Shinto (the Way of ... More
Bridge of Osaka, Japan. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Osaka is a great commercial and industrial center and is one of the sixty harbors in Japan open to foreign trade. Although great quantities of goods pass throug... More
Dining Room of Christian Kold School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Folk High schools is the sociability which is developed. Dinging quarters are provided for all students and in the dining... More
Kiga Road Near Miyanoshita. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "According to the Road Law of 1919, roads are divided into five classes: national, prefectural, districts, city, and town and village. The mileage of these roads... More
Playing "GO", lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Japanese are famous as athletes and acrobats. But a quiet indoor game is also appreciated now and then.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Departmen... More
House Foundation, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 050 009. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Graves of Forty-Seven Ronins. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The 47 Ronins committed suicide to escape death by the executioner and in death have become popular heroes. ..The temple burial place where the little squared h... More
Constantinople, Turkey, From the Seven Towers
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 880,998. Constantinople is a city located on the highway of travel by land from Asia to Europe and on the water route from the Black sea to the Medi... More
Another Temple, lantern slide. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 060 015. ..You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol )... More
A Japanese Tea House. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 060 034. ..You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol )... More
Trafalgar Square, London, England
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "London, the seat of the British government, is located at the head of the estuary of the Thames. It is one of the most interesting cities in the world. Its loca... More
Ireland New Farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Some of the places are built up entirely new. Here is the beginning of a farmstead which is being constructed on a 35 acre farm by a young man."..Original Colle... More
Denmark, Local Milk Retail Station
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cooperative milk stations have their local retail stores where they compete on the same basis with other concerns. To the stranger the only indication of its be... More
Ireland Old Estate, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "During the civil war which followed the revolution many of the larger homes were destroyed. This drove much of the capital from the country to England. Furtherm... More
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the agricultural field the leading institution is the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College which was established as such in 1858. It has an annual enrol... More
The Great Bell of Chion-In Temple, Kyoto, Japan.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "You are in the eastern outskirts of Kyoto; the city proper lies behind you are the west. The trees you see between the great beams of the bell tower belong to t... More
Denmark, Workers in the Field lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On the small farms, however, much of the work is done without machinery and with all members of the family lending a helping hand. As is true of intensive farmi... More
Panorama of Madrid, Spain lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 813,991. Madrid is the chief city of the interior and is the capital of Spain. Over half a million people live here, but the city is unlike the larg... More
Out-of-Door-Tea. 1900s Japan, public domain image.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Tea service is a solemn rite, time-honored and royal. It is the test of elegance, of quiet dignity and repose. Gentle courtesy and exquisitely compliment are im... More
Ireland Blarney Castle, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Near Cork, in southern Ireland there stands old Blarney Castle. A myth says that Queens Elizabeth once referred to statements of the lord of this castle as just... More
The Danish Farmer, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 061. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Park Scene, lantern slide - Public domain portrait drawing
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Then in the parks there are spots of real beauty. This picture shows one of the attractive scenes near the Askov Folk High School. There are sections, particula... More
The Great Bronze Buddha at Kamakura
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Inseparable from the remembrance of temples seen in Japan is the great bronze statue of Buddha, which for nearly five centuries has sat serene and lonely amid t... More
Train station Margarine Plant at Vejen - Public domain photograph.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Margarine can be made cheaper than butter and it is this that Danish people use in their own homes. This great plant was located within about five blocks of the... More
Building Formerly the Cooperative Bank
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "As further evidence of the shoals and rapids through which farmers' cooperative organizations must ride, even in Denmark, one finds in Copenhagen this great bui... More