Historical Images and What I'm Doing with Them
I recently acquired roughly 1000 Magic Lantern Photographic Slides .
Magic lanterns , also known as optical lanterns, provided one of the most popular forms of entertainment during their heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries, establishing many of the first 2-D special effects.
Using an artificial light source and a combination of lenses, these devices enlarged small transparency images or miniature models and projected them onto a wall or screen.
While most magic lanterns were designed as simple wooden boxes fitted with a handful of precision brass parts, a few were ornately decorated with exotic painted scenes or engraved metal casings.
Since many of the slides I acquired are either without labels/captions, or, are labeled in German, researching content is exhausting, frustrating and GREAT FUN! With those slides I can determine content, I am scanning and creating digital files.
Here are several I think will prove interesting.
Street Scene in Cologne, Germany, 1903.
Sunken Gardens, Fairmount Park, April, 1906
Two Women in Conversation, West Point, New York, 1914
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