Lantern Slide
notes: label: Description
content: Mechanical lantern slide in a rectangular wooden frame, with paper label that reads “No. 1. The Solar System, shewing the Revolution of all the Planets with their Satellites round the Sun.” The planets here extend out to Neptune. 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. 218.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328126.01
label: accession number
content: 271987
label: catalog number
content: 328126.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lantern slide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 in x 5/8 in; 17.78 cm x 10.16 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 9 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 24.13 cm