Box 1

Negatives for producing a slide from The Village Blacksmith and of Longfellow. Produced by the W.B. Moore Lantern Slide Company, possibly an illegal duplicate from a Briggs slide, as there is evidence of this practice elsewhere.

Six black and white slides. Such slides were substantially cheaper than the colored ones.

Color lithographs made from Beale slides, published by Paul Revere Copper and Brass, Inc, 1942. Example of merchandizing of Beale images.

Beale's first nationally published drawing, Harper's Weekly, Nov. 18, 1865, was of a baseball game in Philadelphia. The drawing was made while Beale was Professor of Art at Central High School. The Wagner Free Institute of Science (still operating as a museum) is visible in the background of the drawing.

Three-page review of exhibit of Beale paintings at the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia. Calls Beale a "great magic-lantern artist," the first time his actual artistic role is recognized. Previous press reports had said his work was to illustrate books that had never been published, and so Beale's paintings had never been seen before-a clever marketing ploy by Arthur Colen, who purchased Beale's work, and used this story to get an exhibit of it at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Two broadsides, one of Nettz shows that included three Beale slide sets, the other for an illustrated lecture on the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia. Examples of the kind of show promotion common in the field.