Broadside advertisement for "Latham's Eidoloscope Exhibition of Living Motion Pictures"
date: label: date made
content: May 1896
name: label: maker
content: Lambda Company
notes: label: Description
content: Broadside advertisement for "Latham's Eidoloscope Exhibition of Living Motion Pictures," an early exhibition of motion picture projection held at 156 Broadway in New York City in May or June 1896. The Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, their father Woodville, and Franco-American inventor Eugene Lauste formed a motion picture firm called the Lambda Company which built one of the first movie projectors, the Eidoloscope, and made and exhibited films before folding in 1898. This broadside advertised a screening of a boxing film depicting the May 1896 fight between Young Griffo and Charley Barnett.
topic: label: referenced
content: Motion Pictures
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.72.15
label: catalog number
content: 72.15
label: accession number
content: 299555
objectType: label: Object Name
content: broadside
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.1 cm x 15 cm; 9 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in