On May 23rd I wrote an entry called Seredipity Strikes telling about the Balopticon Model C slide projector and box of approximately 150 glass lantern slides that Louise Foucar Marshall left to Patricia Stephenson's mother and have been in her possession since Patricia's mother passed away. Gary Macender made a 360 degree QTVR of the Balopticon Model C that you can view in QuickTime. If you are new to QuickTime VR, follow the above link and when it displays on your computer in QuickTime, click and drag the image to the left or to the right.
I received an email from the archivist at the Frances Willard Historical Association who confirmed that the slides copyrighted by the National Christian Women's Temperance Union were out of copyright. I had posted a query about this to a listserv I am on and someone forwarded to her. Another example of the sense of community that you find on the Internet. When I complete making JPEGs images from the TIFFs created last week, I'll burn a copy for the Frances Willard Historical Association.
My next step is editing the TIFF images into JPEGS of 600, 400 and 160 DPI, and creating of descriptive and technical metadata. I put a draft together this morning from one of the slides. Check it out and if you have suggestions please send an email.
