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Box BMA.JBB.004

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Contains 3 Results:

Plate and filmstrip

 File — Box: BMA.JBB.004
Identifier: BMA.JBB.004
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The materials show the distribution and use of Beale’s illustrations as magic-lantern media. A variety of glass-slides and related materials that would have been manufactured and distributed by companies such as C.W. Briggs are included in the collection, such as: A slip-slide; a light sample, or an image’s initial printing on the glass before it was cut, painted, sealed, and housed; economy slide; slide label; a magic-lantern slide catalogue; scrip t for magic-lantern performance; and a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950; 1865 - 2013

Ceramic plate, back label “Historical America Betsy Ross showing the first flag, Homer Laughlin China Co. Made in USA, Picture reproduced from original painting by Joseph Boggs Beale, Copyright – Modern Enterprises. Philadelphia, PA.”

 Item — Box: BMA.JBB.004, Object: 1
Identifier: BMA.JBB.004.001
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The materials show the distribution and use of Beale’s illustrations as magic-lantern media. A variety of glass-slides and related materials that would have been manufactured and distributed by companies such as C.W. Briggs are included in the collection, such as: A slip-slide; a light sample, or an image’s initial printing on the glass before it was cut, painted, sealed, and housed; economy slide; slide label; a magic-lantern slide catalogue; scrip t for magic-lantern performance; and a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950; 1865 - 2013

Filmstrip example, an evolution of Magic-Lantern media, undated

 Item — Box: BMA.JBB.004, Object: 2
Identifier: BMA.JBB.004.002
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The materials show the distribution and use of Beale’s illustrations as magic-lantern media. A variety of glass-slides and related materials that would have been manufactured and distributed by companies such as C.W. Briggs are included in the collection, such as: A slip-slide; a light sample, or an image’s initial printing on the glass before it was cut, painted, sealed, and housed; economy slide; slide label; a magic-lantern slide catalogue; scrip t for magic-lantern performance; and a...
Dates: undated