Lantern Slide
notes: label: Description
content: Mechanical lantern slide in a rectangular wooden frame. A paper label reads “No. 8. This Diagram illustrates the Annual Motion of the Earth round the Sun, with the Monthly lunations of the Moon.” In 1848, this retailed for $5.75.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 219.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Colgate University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328126.02
label: accession number
content: 271987
label: catalog number
content: 328126.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lantern slide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 4 in x 3/4 in; 24.13 cm x 10.16 cm x 1.905 cm