1920\'s ECUADOR VINTAGE ORIGINAL GLASS SLIDES X53 STEAMSHIP CANAL BOAT S. AMERICA for Sale

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1920\'s ECUADOR VINTAGE ORIGINAL GLASS SLIDES X53 STEAMSHIP CANAL BOAT S. AMERICA For Sale

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1920\'s ECUADOR VINTAGE ORIGINAL GLASS SLIDES X53 STEAMSHIP CANAL BOAT S. AMERICA:
$539.99

[PHOTOGRAPHY, ECUADOR, STEAMSHIP TRAVEL SOUTH AMERICA]

\"ECUADOR\"

A collection of 53 ORIGINAL COLOR glass slides of an Ecuador steamship voyage there and the trip while enroute. Each of the 2.25 in x 2.75 in slides is hand colored as shown. The slides made by Victor Animatograph Company are in excellent condition and present quite well. The slides are housed in an original cardboard box with the contents marked in old ink pen.

A RARE and unusual assemblage of images from the period. Of particular interest is a slide showing two of the Copley men walking on an immense pile of human bones from some horrible massacre. We have yet to determine the origin of this image or the event which may have caused it. Also of interest are images of the Copley\'s aboard the steamship playing shuffleboard, a possible crossing the Panama Canal, and other activities.

The images do feature members of the Copley family which is how we\'re certain these are ORIGINAL slides and not mass produced / published images as is more commonly found. The Copley family has always been wealthy since the Ira Copley began his newspaper empire in 1905.

Provenance: James S. Copley / Copley Library –

Followers of our inventory might note we originally acquired mostof our James Copley material in 2009 & 2010. However, we recently learnedone of the Copley homes inherited by David Copley (d. 2012) had family effectsfrom both Ira and James Copley in the garage. We acquired a portion of thatmaterial when it was recently offered at sale in Spring 2015.

This itemis formerlyfrom the collection ofJamesS. Copley (1916- 1973)who owned the Copley Press (comprised of14+ city newspapers) and founded the Copley Library in San Diego California.

James Copley was born in St. Johnsville, N.Y., in 1916. Both ofhis parents died in the flu epidemic that swept the U.S. in 1918, and when hewas 4 he was adopted by Col. and Mrs. Ira C. Copley. Col. Copley bought The SanDiego Union and Evening Tribune from the Spreckels family in 1928.

Copley graduated from Yale in 1939 and started his journalismcareer at another of his father\'s papers, The Culver City Star News, where hesolicited ads and circulation as well as sweeping the floor and writing newsstories. Copley then moved to San Diego and joined the Navy Reserves in 1941after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

When the elder Copley died in 1947, Jim became Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the corporation publishing a large family of newspapers, theflagship of which was, and is today, the Union-Tribune. He pursued a dynamicprogram of expansion of the newspaper plants, both technologically and in size.He took an active personal interest in the editorial quality of his papers. Inthe 26 years he headed the enterprise until his death in 1973, the Union\'scirculation tripled and the Union-Tribune moved into a wholly new plant withnew presses in Mission Valley.

He remained editor of that paper and CEO of Copley Press until his deathin 1973. He was the recipient of numerous industry awards and he and his wife,Helen K. Copley, were notable philanthropists to the San Diego area; endowingthe Copley Auditorium at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Copley Library at theUniversity of San Diego, Copley Symphony Hall, the Copley Center at the ScrippsClinic and Research Foundation and a YMCA facility, among others.After several years of collecting on a small scale, Mr. Copley embarked onjourney to assemble a substantial collection and enlisted the help of acurator, Richard Reilly. For the remainder of Mr. Copley’s life and for manyyears following, Reilly, together with Mrs. Copley, worked to build acollection that keenly reflected Mr. Copley’s interests, chief among which washis own national heritage and the patriotic principles embraced by the family’snewspapers.

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