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<p>SCRANTON &#8212; The University of Scranton will exhibit glass slides telling the stories of Civil War veteran and Scranton mayor Ezra Ripple in the Hope Horn Gallery from Feb. 5 through March 11. The exhibit will be free and open to the public and can be viewed during gallery hours.</p><p>Ripple commissioned artist James Taylor, one of America&#8217;s best known artists at the the time, to create the slides, and in the 1890s, Ripple used them as visual aids for public lectures about his experiences as a prisoner of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The exhibit, &#8220;Andersonville and Florence Prisons: The Ezra Hoyt Ripple Memoir&#8221; will be a digitally reproduced version of the slides that were originally projected from a lantern.</p><p>Director of the Hope Horn Gallery, Darlene Miller-Lanning will lecture on the exhibit at 5 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Pearn Auditorium of Brennan Hall. Following the presentation, a public reception will take place at 6 p.m. at the Hope Horn Gallery in Hyland Hall. The presentation and reception are also free and open to the public.</p><p>The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Lackawanna Historical Society and presented in conjunction with the 150th anniversaries of the Civil War and the city of Scranton.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">&#8220;Leaving Florence Prison,&#8221; a digital reproduction of a lantern slide by James Taylor, is among the illustrations that will be on display at the University of Scranton&#8217;s Hope Horn Gallery from Feb. 5 through March 11. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/web1_Florence-Prison.jpg</photo0><caption0>&#8220;Leaving Florence Prison,&#8221; a digital reproduction of a lantern slide by James Taylor, is among the illustrations that will be on display at the University of Scranton&#8217;s Hope Horn Gallery from Feb. 5 through March 11. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
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Memoirs of Civil War veteran and Scranton mayor Ezra Ripple to be illustrated in glass slide exhibit at Scranton University