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The collection is comprised of three photograph albums, two of which depict northern (non-Florida) scenes, while the last album is labled "Trip Through Florida, 1918." The images depict hunting, camping, fishing and boating, as well as a group of women at school, playing sports and touring.

Lantern slides have their origins in optical projection devices dating to the seventeenth century, yet their widespread use did not begin until after the advent of the wet collodion photographic process by Frederick Scott Archer in the late 1840s. As the nineteenth century progressed, lantern slides with photographic images quickly became popular forms of public and private education and entertainment.