Toledo

Related to the earlier tradition of lantern slides on glass plates, slides made from celluloid film became a commonplace way of circulating photographic images in the twentieth century. These slides featuring the sites and artworks of Toledo, Spain, could have been used in various ways. Slides were frequently used to circulate art reproductions, much like engraving or lithography had been in previous centuries (such as in Baxter's Cabinet of Paintings), and they became a fixture of art history classrooms in the twentieth century. These slides also allude to the tradition of the family slideshow, popularized in the 1950s and 1960s with Kodachrome slides. Much like photographic souvenir books and souvenir cards, slides like these could be purchased by a traveller to supplement their snapshots of a trip.