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Lantern Slide Collection
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2017.017
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1820-1950 (Creation)
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ca. 500 glass slides, 100 photographs and 12 projectors
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This collection consists of early optical devices commonly known as magic lanterns. The first report of the construction of a magic lantern is generally considered to be referring to the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1659. The lanterns in this collection are dated from the early 1800s until the mid 1900s and include large professional devices as well as consumer models and toy magic lanterns.
The collection also holds over 500 lantern slides on a wide range of subjects. The slides demonstrate different iterations of glass slide projection and the evolution from hand-painted imagery to photographic and mechanical slides.
For more information about the history of magic lantern projection, please see our blog post: https://library.ryerson.ca/asc/2017/10/new-exhibition-projecting-magic/
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Majority of the collection was donated to Special Collections by John Tysall in 2017.
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LanternSlides_small.jpg
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