Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Lantern Slide - De Soto Discovering Mississippi, 1521
1895-1925
A. D. Handy Stereopticons and Supplies
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Glass
overall: 3-3/16"h x 4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Anne R. Berntsen
2008.023.22

Lantern slide in black and white. Image shows a man on horseback wearing armor, followed by other men on horseback. They are approaching a group of Native Americans at left, with a tipi in the background. In the foreground is a man with a shovel and several others moving a cannon. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "De Soto discovering Mississippi, 1521." A label printed in red applied to the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, Boston."