Norwegian lantern slides
A psychedelic-colored tour of majestic fjords
Alex Q. Arbuckle
c. 1900
This collection of hand-tinted lantern slides captures views of some of the most popular tourist destinations in Norway around the dawn of the 20th century.The photos were taken by professional photographer Samuel J. Beckett and amateur P. Heywood Hadfield, an employee of the Orient Steam Navigation Company who travelled aboard pleasure cruises through the fjords of the Scandinavian country.Hadfield produced a book of photographs from his travels, With an Ocean Liner (Orient Co.’s S.S. “Ophir”) through the Fjords of Norway: A Photographic Memento of a Fortnight’s Cruising.The book and hand-colored lantern slides of the photographs within were published by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company and marketed as souvenirs to tourists and cruise passengers.
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