Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern
- 2017.017.01.001
- Item
- [ca. 1830]
Part of Lantern Slide Collection
A black tin Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern with handle and crooked chimney.
Carpenter marketed his Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern as a consumer version of the famous Phantasmagoria lantern shows that simulated ghost and spirit projections during the late 1700 and early 1800s. The name is a misnomer since Phantasmagoria refers to a type of projection rather than a type of lantern. The handle on the lantern was meant to accompany a larger professional magic lantern show with a small, mobile projector, or for small scale uses.
Carpenter & Westley