Audio-Visual

19th-Century Photographs
20th-Century Photographs
Lantern Slides
Slides
Filmstrips
Moving Pictures

19th-Century Photographs
Ambrotypes, tintypes, daguerreotypes, and photoprints including original photos of:

Stephen Foster, William B. & Eliza Clayland Foster, George Cooper, Henrietta Foster Wick Thornton, Marion Foster Welch, Annie Jenkins, Henrietta Crosman, Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Christy, and the Christy Minstrels.

20th-Century Photographs

The Collection contains approximately 1,700 twentieth-century photographs, described in the Photo Index. In addition, photostats made of photos pertaining to Foster's life, work, and the Memorial are bound for easy reference in six binders:

• Pictures and Portraits: views of Foster Hall, Indianapolis; Foster busts; Foster portraits; sketches; tintypes; silhouettes; Foster relatives; misc. correspondence and maps; money and billfold; melodeon and flute; Foster artifacts.
• Letters and Manuscripts: sketches; account book; some music scores
• Title Pages, J.K. Lilly and Foster Memorial
• Copeland Illustrations from The Old Plantation Melodies
• Stephen Foster's Account Book
• Stephen Foster' s Sketchbook

Lantern Slides
Seven sets of uncatalogued glass lantern slides (black and white) of Foster history, biography, and music. One set of hand tinted slides depicting scenes from Foster's best known songs.

Slides
There are over 200 slides, mostly in color, prepared for public lectures, or documenting events or holdings of the FHC, and the exhibit at the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center in White Springs, Florida.

Filmstrips
The FHC has one color filmstrip (kit with audio tape) of Foster's life and melodies intended for primary through junior high audiences.

Moving Pictures
The FHC has a rapidly growing collection of videos and DVDs including movies about Foster's life, documentaries about Foster and the Memorial, films and television shows which include Foster's music, videotapes of concert performances, and professionally produced videos about American music.

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