On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Robert MacKimmie wrote:

> They are sandwiched
> between glass and taped, but this can be overcome.
>
Not necessarily.  There are 150,000 lantern slides at the Institute
of Fine Arts, and probably 98% are glass positives.  The difficulties
in scanning them come from the thickness of the glass on which they
are printed, not in the format per-se.

Lantern slides really are wonderful.  The faculty here still use them
regularly (which means I have to keep some museum-piece projectors
repaired, but that's another story).  Lantern slides are, however,
subject to the same copyright protection as all the other images
we work with.  Solve those, and the mechanics of digitizing lantern
slides will become trivial.

Jenni Rodda , Curator
Visual Resources Collections
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York, NY  10021
(212) 772-5872, fax (212) 772-5807, [log in to unmask]