About the cover
This street scene from Palermo, Italy, is one of approximately 10,000 slides in the Branson DeCou Archive of the University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The collection of handpainted lantern slides by DeCou (a turn-of-the-century photographer) has been generally unavailable because of their fragile and oversized format. But a recent grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation is enabling the library to make DeCou’s photographs available to the public as an online archive. The grant is supporting in-depth cataloging and cutting-edge digital formatting of the images. The images will be accessible through SlideCat, the University Library’s online slide catalog. SlideCat represents holdings of more than 250,000 images from all subject disciplines.
