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Scope and Contents
1,855 4x4 inch lantern slides; 100 2x2 inch slides; lantern slide projector with adaptation for film strips. The collection is unusual in that several of the slide sets are accompanied by the prepared sermon sold with them as a printed booklet. The presence of these booklets is noted throughout the finding aid with the relevant slide set. A complete list of available sermon booklets can be found in Box 45 of the collection.
The majority of these slides are from the Victor Animatagraph Company. Where possible, we have identified specific Animatograph rental sets and series, usually by referring to the Ryan Lantern Slide Service’s Lantern Slide Catalog, First Edition. This catalog is available for reference in Box 7 of the Papers of the Victor Animatograph Corporation (MsC 153). Most other titles have been drawn from the slides themselves.
Please note that this finding aid currently includes only the 4x4 inch lantern slides. The 2x2 inch slides will be added in the future.
Biographical Note
George Elmer Allan was born on May 2, 1889 in Illinois. He was a traveling salesman until 1921 when he was licensed to preach by the Jackson District Mississippi Methodist Conference. This took place at Capital Street Methodist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. The following year he was appointed to fill the vacancy on the Camden Charge where he remained until 1925. He was admitted on trial into the Mississippi Methodist Conference in 1925 at Court Street Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and appointed pastor of the Brooklyn Mississippi Charge. He was ordained a Deacon on Sunday, November 13, 1927, and on November 10, 1929, was ordained an Elder.
He pastored the following churches: Brooklyn (2 years); West Laurel (3); Benton (2); Long Beach (2); Homewood (1); Georgetown (2); Purvis (2); Poplar Springs in Meridian (6); Creole (1); Epworth and North Biloxi (1); Petal Mississippi; Foxworth Charge; (Pearl River Avenue in McComb (3); Justice Heights in Laurel (3).
He retired at the annual conference in 1957. Following retirement, he served as a supply pastor, a visiting minister, and Chaplain at Ellisville State School. He and his wife were the first tenants of the Seashore Manor retirement home when the facility opened.
During his years as an active minister, he pioneered the use of audio-visual materials in the church through the showing of 16mm sound religious films and slide presentations. He also set type and printed his own Sunday bulletins for each of the churches he pastored.
He married Mary Latitia Meadows on May 12, 1912, in Metropolis, Illinois. He died on September 5, 1970 in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Box Contents List
Victor Animatograph Company Slides: Ryan Lantern Slide Service Rental Sets
Box 1
21B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon I: The Darkness.
30 slides in series.
Listed on page 3 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog.
Sermon Booklet.
22F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon II: Pathfinders.
31 slides in series.
Listed on page 3 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 2
22F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon II: Pathfinders, continued.
23E Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon III: Emancipators.
30 slides in series.
Listed on page 3 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 3
24C Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon IV: Nation Builders.
31 slides in series. 2 slides missing: 201, 210.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
25B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon V: Light-Bearers.
30 slides in series. 2 slides missing: 7187, 2639.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 4
25B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon V: Light-Bearers, continued.
26L Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VI: Light of Bethlehem.
30 slides in series. 1 slide missing: 1701.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Box 5
27F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VII: Light of Judea.
30 slides in series. 1 slide missing: 7181.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
28B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VIII: Light of Galilee.
30 slides in series.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 6
28B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VIII: Light of Galilee, continued.
29F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon IX: Light on a Hill Top.
30 slides in series.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 7
30H Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon X: Light Diffused.
30 slides in series.
Listed on page 4 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
255C The Revelation of God: Sermon 4: The Written Law.
54 slides in series. 7 slides missing: 16968, 16971, 16985, 16988, 16989, 17007, 17015.
Listed on page 8 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Box 8
255C The Revelation of God: Sermon 4: The Written Law, continued.
255E The Revelation of God: Sermon 4: The Written Law, second copy of set.
54 slides in series. 2 slides missing: 17012 and 17007.
Listed on page 8 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Box 9
255C The Revelation of God: Sermon 4: The Written Law, second copy of set, continued.
256E The Revelation of God: Sermon 5: The Son of God, or the Word Made Flesh.
59 slides in series. 16 slides missing: 17033, 17064, 17069, 17051, 17075, 17027, 17053, 17067, 17059, 17076, 17032, 17024, 17080, 17052, 17057, 17060.
Listed on page 9 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Box 10
256E The Revelation of God: Sermon 5: The Son of God, or the Word Made Flesh, continued.
289E Home Sweet Home, Here and Hereafter.
56 slides in series. 3 slides missing: 17191, 17176, 17189.
Listed on page 25 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 11
289E Home Sweet Home, Here and Hereafter, continued.
304D The Journey of Life.
54 slides in series. 3 slides missing: 17208, 17242, 17241.
Listed on page 25 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 12
304D The Journey of Life, continued.
352A Nature Story Scripture Lessons: A Set Strictly for Children.
66 slides in series. 1 slide missing: 19566.
Listed on page 24 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 13
352A Nature Story Scripture Lessons: A Set Strictly for Children, continued.
Box 14
352A Nature Story Scripture Lessons: A Set Strictly for Children, continued.
380D The Light from God.
66 slides in series. 17 slides missing: 16870, 4635, 15134, 17378, 3426, 14232, 4921, 13095, 20090-20099.
Listed on page 41 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 15
405 A Hymn of the Continents.
41 slides in series. 1 slide missing: 41.
Listed on page 37 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 16
408D The Puritans in New England.
51 slides in series.
Listed on page 20 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 17
414D Our Ministering Angels.
62 slides in series. 6 slides missing: 21027, 21032, 21036, 21037, 21041, 21046.
Listed on page 42 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 18
414D Our Ministering Angels, continued.
420B Birth at Bethlehem.
27 slides in series. Sermon.
Listed on page 43 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
451 Character: Paul the Apostle.
40 slides in series. 5 slides missing: 7124, 438, 1547, 2691, 7133. Listed on page 19 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Box 19
451 Character: Paul the Apostle, continued.
572B Dealing Kindly with the Master.
35 slides in series. 4 slides missing: 17585, 16842, 17076, 21836.
Listed on page S-11 of Ryan Lantern Slide Catalog
Sermon Booklet
Box 20
572B Dealing Kindly with the Master, continued.
Morning. 2 slides.
Noontide. 5 slides.
Evening. 4 slides.
Box 21
Songs & Hymns. 79 slides.
Box 22
Songs & Hymns, continued.
Victor Animatograph Company Slides: Newell Dwight Hillis' "Better America" Series
Box 23
Ability. 14 slides.
Bolshevism. 4 slides.
Future. 18 slides.
Box 24
Builders. 42 slides.
Box 25
Equality. 10 slides.
Fathers. 29 slides.
Box 26
P-1. 50 slides.
Box 27
P-1, continued.
P-2. 52 slides.
Box 28
P-2, continued.
Poverty. 11 slides.
Box 29
Property. 13 slides.
Republic. 13 slides.
Socialism. 11 slides.
Unidentified Hillis Slide. 1 slide.
Miscellaneous Victor Animatograph Company Slides
Box 30
Miscellaneous Victor Slides. 102 slides.
Box 31
Miscellaneous Victor Slides, continued.
Marcy Sciopticon Slides
Box 32
Statuary Council of War. 2 slides.
New Testament. 14 slides.
Biblical Scenery. 9 slides.
Miscellaneous Marcy Sciopticon Slides. 14 slides.
World Service Commission Slides: Photographs from the 1890s: Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee
Box 33
01 Early Days Israel. 9 slides.
02 Flight to Egypt. 17 slides.
03 Return to Nazareth. 8 slides.
Box 34
04 To and From Jerusalem. 5 slides.
05 Early Ministry. 10 slides.
06 Galilean Ministry. 13 slides.
Box 35
07 Up to Jerusalem. 12 slides.
08 Peter and Paul's Early Ministries. 3 slides.
09 Paul in Turkey. 2 slides.
10 Paul in Greece. 6 slides.
11 Paul in Italy. 5 slides.
Box 36
Possible (?) Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee Miscellaneous Slides. 47 slides.
World Service Commission Slides: Other Series
Box 37
Angels. 10 slides.
At Even. 3 slides.
Chaos. 5 slides.
Christ Risen To-day. 7 slides.
Christmas Story. 13 slides.
Box 38
C.W.L. 3 slides.
Easter. 28 slides.
Family Religion. 3 slides.
For Such. 6 slides.
Box 39
John Wesley. 2 slides.
Miscellaneous slides. 9 slides.
Pilot Me. 11 slides.
Religious Education. 5 slides.
Romance of American Methodism. 49 slides.
Sermon Booklet
Box 40
Romance of American Methodism, continued.
We Would See Jesus. 12 slides.
Slides from Miscellaneous Sources, not Victor Animatograph Company
Box 41
Chicago Song Slides Exchange Misc. Slides. 3 slides.
Dear Old Dear. 8 slides.
Dreamy Town. 3 slides.
Geo. W. Bond Slide Company Slides. 5 slides.
The Good Samaritan. 3 slides.
Holy City. 10 slides.
Holy Land. 3 slides.
The Huber Art Company Slides. 3 slides.
Box 42
H.D. Smith Company Slides. 31 slides.
Poland. 2 slides
Unknown Company, Miscellaneous Slides. 72 slides.
Box 43
Unknown Company, Miscellaneous Slides, continued.
Box 44
Unknown Company, Miscellaneous Slides, continued.
Box 44.5
5 slides we were unable to place
Sermon Booklets to Accompany Ryan Lantern Slide Service Rental Sets
Box 45
21B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon I: The Darkness
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet.
Also includes rental sheet with directions for cleaning and purchasing slides.
22F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon II: Pathfinders
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
23E Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon III: Emancipators
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
24C Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon IV: Nation Builders
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
25B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon V: Light-Bearers
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
27F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VII: Light of Judea
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
28B Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon VIII: Light of Galilee
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
29F Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon IX: Light on a Hill Top.
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
30H Starlight and Sunlight: Sermon X: Light Diffused.
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet .
Also includes rental sheet with directions for cleaning and purchasing slides.
289E Home Sweet Home, Here and Hereafter.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
304D The Journey of Life.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
352A Nature Story Scripture Lessons: A Set Strictly for Children.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
380D The Light from God.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
405 A Hymn of the Continents.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet.
Also includes rental sheet with directions for cleaning and purchasing slides.
408D The Puritans in New England.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
414D Our Ministering Angels.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
420B Birth at Bethlehem.
Ryan Lantern Slide Service Booklet
572B Dealing Kindly with the Master.
Victor Animatograph Company Booklet
Other Booklets and Ephemera
[continuing in Box 45]
Donation card (fragment) found with World Service Commission slides.
Donation card found with Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee lectures on Paul.
Song List found with Holy City slides from an unknown company.
World Service Commission: The Romance of American Methodism.
Joint Sesquicentennial Commission of American Methodism Booklet.