The introduction of lantern slides in 1849, ... The practice of projecting images from glass plates began centuries before the invention of photography. As early as the seventeenth century the Magic Lantern, or Sciopticon, was used to project painted images on glass for children’s picture shows and for religious displays.
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Collection of glass-lantern slides offers history of '50s-'60s design ... A collection of glass-lantern slides that provides a snapshot of the history of design through the 1950s and 1960s, from prefabricated housing to room interiors and furniture, has been donated to Cornell's Rare and Manuscript Collections at...
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Manufacture of Lantern Slides ... The practice of projecting images from glass plates began centuries before the invention of photography. However, in the 1840s, Philadelphia daguerreotypists, William and Frederick Langenheim, began experimenting with The Magic Lantern as an apparatus for displaying their photographic images.
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In the early years of the twentieth century glass lantern slides, sometimes hand-tinted, were a popular form of entertainment, known as "magic lantern" exhibitions. They were also used in education.
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Pittsburgh native Walter McClintock graduated from Yale in 1891. In 1896 he traveled west as a photographer for a federal commission investigating national forests. McClintock became friends with the ... 1,413 hand-colored, transparent, 3 x 5 inch glass lantern slides; Walter McClintock papers, 1874-1946...
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The practice of using Magic Lanterns to project images on glass plates was by no means new. As early as the 17th century, glass slides had been projected using a Magic Lantern.
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Thomas Keith Marshall's Lantern Slides; Prohibition Themes ... The slides represented on this page are from the series: The Fight of Science Against Alcohol ... The Slides Used in This Lecture Prepared and Sold By the NWCTU, Evanston, Illinois...
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Images were captured from the glass lantern slides at 3072 X 2320 pixels (approximately 600 dpi) using a Kontron Ultra High Resolution Digital Color Camera, model ProgRes 3012 and saved as TIFFs.
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This microfilm collection preserves 879 of Shurcliff's glass lantern slides which illustrate his work (chiefly in the Boston area), as well as building, landscape, and parkway designs in Italy, France, England, and other parts of Europe that influenced his work.
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