Dr. J. Alex Speer was a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University and an officer of the Mineralogical Society of America.The lantern slides in this collection contain views of geological features in the Wake County vicinity as well as areas of Western North Carolina.
J. Alex Speer Lantern Slide Collection
PhC.50.1
early 1900s
English
Dr. J. Alex Speer was a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University and an officer of the Mineralogical Society of America.
The lantern slides in this collection contain views of geological features in the Wake County vicinity as well as areas of Western North Carolina.For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.
Speer, J. Alex.
State Archives of North Carolina
The lantern slides are arranged by subject. The geological features are grouped at the front and are followed by the mine-related views.
Available for research.
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Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, July, 1992
Encoded by Dietra Stanley
Encoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012
Dr. J. Alex Speer was a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University and an officer of the Mineralogical Society of America.
[Identification of item], PhC.50.1, J. Alex Speer Lantern Slide Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.
This collection of lantern slides was donated to the State Archives by J. Alex Speer, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, P. O. Box 8208, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 on July 22, 1992. It was accessioned by the Archives in August, 1992.
Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.
The lantern slides contain views of geological features in the Wake County vicinity as well as areas of Western North Carolina. One view is near Garner, one near Wake Forest, another near Raleigh, and one in northeast Wake County. The geological formations in the western part of the state are in the counties of Mitchell and Wilkes. In addition the collection contains one photo of a rock formation near Chapel Hill. The remainder of the slides are pictures of feldspar and kaolin mines in Western North Carolina. There are scenes of the famous McKinney Mine near Spruce Pine and an image of the Salisbury Pink Granite Quarry at Granite Quarry, North Carolina. The slides appear to date from the early 1900s.