Toy magic lantern projector with one circular slide, and 12 rectangular slides in wooden box.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1880
Materials
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525174
Summary
Toy magic lantern projector with one circular slide (depicting the story of Robinson Crusoe), 12 rectangular slides in wooden box. By German toy maker Jean Schoenner.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986