Untitled
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass and paper
Measurements
Each slide (min) - 116 mm (length); 32 mm (width), Each slide (max) - 131 mm (length); 36 mm (width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666170
Summary
Fourteen lantern slides. Thirteen are rectangular with a green paper border and one has a pink border. The one with pink around the edges depicts acrobats and animals. The green slides depicts the following: a continuous picture of hunting; a fountain with a train going past behind; an Egyptian scene; five men, one has his hands tied behind his back and is attached to a rope that another man is holding; children playing, some on the sand and some on the grass; five figures, one girl is pushing an animal in a cart and a man has a cone balanced on his nose; four children playing in the snow. Six of the lantern slides contain five circular roundels on each slide, two of these slides depict castles, one shows a monkey playing musical instruments, another slide depicts animals in four of the roundels and a man in the central one. One of the roundels depicts a grey rabbit ice-skating. The final two slides contain faces. One is five different pictures of a clowns face and the other depicts five different faces, all of which have red noses. Total number of items is 14.