Elise J. Blattner

Elise Jecko Blattner (1854–1926) was a traveler and lecturer who was reputed to be the first person west of the Allegheny Mountains to illustrate her talks with lantern slides.

[5] Henry Blattner, her husband, was a skilled amateur photographer who assisted in making the lantern slides for her lectures.

"[2] In 1889 she made her first trip to Europe, spending a year at the University of Berlin and returning with about two thousand photographs of art objects.

[12][13] Clara was also a lecturer, demonstrating the No dance, flower arranging, the tea ceremony, bonsedi, or sand pictures and kōdō, an incense game.

[14] Mrs. Charles P. Johnson, her biographer, said of her lectures that "her manner of delivery is the most polished imaginable; her voice is pleasing, resonant, and clear.