Lantern
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this device reads “CARBUTT's / MULTUM IN PARVO / DRY PLATE LANTERN / PAT. APRIL 25th, 1882.” John Carbutt, the inventor, was affiliated with the Keystone Dry-Plate Works, in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Carbutt, “Photographic Lantern,” U.S. Patent 256,974 (April 25, 1882).
label: Description
content: Scovill and Adams Co., How to Make Photographs (New York, 1889).
label: Description
content: E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs (1891), p. 76.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83546U48
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lantern, Plate
label: Other Terms
content: Lantern, Plate; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 8 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 22.225 cm x 24.13 cm