Item consists of 4 Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 images. Designed by German illustrator Theodor von Kramer

File contains 35mm slides produced from original objects and books belonging to the Ryerson Image Centre, focusing on the items in their collection produced by Canadian photographers in the latter half of the 19th century. Photographers include; B.F. Baltzley, George Barker, R. Bell, Ernest Brown, F.G. Clauded, F. Dally, G.M. Dawson, Edward Dossetter, D.B. Dowling, Dunmore & Criterson, Elliston & Co., W. England, Erwing & Co., Faribault, A. Henderson, H.L. Hime (Armstrong, Beere & Hime), Charles Horetzky, J. INglis, Ryder Larson, William Augustus Leggo, Livernois & Bienveau, J.W. Lowe, A.P. Low, R. Maynard, R.G. McLaughlin, J.G. Parks, Capt. Jason Peters, J. Richardson, G.P. Roberts, Alexander Ross, A.R.C. Selwyn, Stiff Brothers, L.G. Swain, W.J. Topley, J. Turner, J.B. Tyrell, J.P. Vallee, T.C. Weston, William Williamson.

Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 4 images illustrating a boy swatting a man with a net.

Item consists of 2 hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 8 individual images. Illustrations resemble Punch and Judy cartoons.

Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 4 tableaus in one illustration depicting winter scenes in a village. Produced by Ernst Plank, Germany.

Item consists of 2 hand painted Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 circular images. Slides show frogs, cats and dogs swimming, driving cars and riding bicycles. Produced by Gebruder Bing, Nuremberg.

Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 8 individual images

Item is a magic lantern slide done in the Decalcomania or Chromolitho style. Image shows rowboats, powered by 2-3 men, and a couple of bigger ships, as well as a dock.

Item consists of 4 Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 images. Designed by German illustrator Theodor von Kramer

It is a replica built in the style of the small "mousetrap" cameras designed by William Henry Fox Talbot in the mid 1830's . They were simple wooden boxes with a single lens used to expose paper negatives, sensitized by silver nitrate (the calotype or Talbotype process). Exposures often took hours, and Talbot had several of the cameras made by a local joiner near his country home in Laycock, Wiltshire. This replica was built by Wilhelm E. Nassau to demonstrate the loading and exposing of light sensitive paper in an early camera type. In the sliding holder the sensitive paper could be inserted into the camera and exposed for several minutes. The paper slide can be replaced by a matt screen. The lens is a simple achromatic design.