Henry Langdon Childe (1781-1874)

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1845

10" x 16 1/2"

Label reads: "Mr. H. Childe, Painter on Glass, Professor of Optics, Inventor of Dissolving Views, Chromatropes & c, 66 Vauxhall Walk, Lamberth"

4620

Henry Langdon Childe (1781-1874)

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1845

10" x 16 1/2"

4621

Henry Langdon Childe (1781-1874)

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1845

10" x 16 1/2"

4622

C.W. Collins

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

6 1/2" x 9"

4665

C.W. Collins

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

6 1/2" x 9"

4666

C.W. Collins

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

6 1/2" x 9"

4667

C.W. Collins

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

6 1/2" x 9"

4669

Isaac Knott

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

5" x 6"

Knott, whose business was located in Birmingham, advertised his company as " Artists to the Royal Polytechnic, Knott and Co, Dissolving View Apparatus, and Every Description of Slide Manufacturers" This set of dissolving slides shows the Dome of the Rock in day, sundown, and in the dark with the windows lit.

4616

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

9 1/2" x 11 3/4"

Four slides from a large set of slides about the Arctic exploration of American, Elisha Kent Kane, and his U.S. Grinell expedition(1853-1855). The first image of boats in harbor shows the lead ship the ADVANCE. The third slide show the ship run aground by an iceberg in Smith's Sound.

1484/1485/1486/1487

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

7 1/4" x 9 1/4"

Image with several Mastodons. Part of a series.

4131

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

7 1/4" x 9 1/4"

Image with a Rhinoceros. Part of a series.

4132

A. Kruss

Wood & hand-painted glass

Germany

c. 1880

8 3/4" x 13 1/2"

A fairy-tale illustration, most likely part of a set made by A. Kruss, Hamburg.

3860

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

9 1/2" x 11 3/4"

This slide shows Paris by the Seine and was part of the collection that came with the slides about Elisha Kent Kane's Artic exploration.

1488

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

9 1/2" x 11 3/4"

This slide was part of the collection that came with the slides about Elisha Kent Kane's Artic exploration.

1258

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

5 3/4" x 7 3/4"

Sold by W.E. & F. Newton, London.

4637

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

5 3/4" x 7 3/4"

4539

Hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

4 1/2" x 4 1/2"

1636

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

5 1/2" x 6"

Part of a set of four slides.

1637

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

5 1/2" x 6"

Part of a set of four slides.

1638

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

5 1/2" x 6"

Part of a set of four slides.

1639

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

5 1/2" x 6"

Part of a set of four slides.

1640

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1870

5 3/4" x 9"

4500

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 9"

4501

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1870

6" x 8"

1656

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 7"

1657

W & E Newton

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1880

5" x 8"

1658

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1860

5" x 8"

1659

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1850

7" x 9 1/2"

1660

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

7" x 8 1/2"

1661

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

c. 1850

7" x 11"

1662

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 11 1/2"

3166

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 11 1/2"

Both a slip slide and lever slide. The lever moves the woman's head and the slip moves her arm.

3165

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 11 1/2"

3164

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 11 1/2"

3163

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

5" x 8 1/2"

2394

Isaac Knott

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

1862

7 1/2" x 17 1/2"

4619

Isaac Knott

Wood & hand-painted glass

Great Britain

1862

7 1/2" x 17 1/2"

4619

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

9" x 13 1/2"

A large chromotrope.

1648

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

9" x 13 1/2"

A large chromotrope.

1649

Wood and hand-colored glass

Continental

c. 1860

5" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

2196

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1870

5 1/2" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

1650

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

5" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

2395

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

5 1/2" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

2396

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

5" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

2397

Wood & hand-painted glass

Continental

c. 1860

4 1/2" x 10"

A large chromotrope.

2398

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

a dissolving view set

1611

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

a day/night dissolving slide set

1612

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

a summer/winter dissolving slide set

1613

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

a day/night dissolving slide set

0320

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1614

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1615

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1616

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1617

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1618

Wood & hand-painted glass

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

1619

Wood & paper

France

c. 1860

Slide: 5" x 5", frame:8 1/4" x 16"

A frame with a cut-out turning head paper image

1620

Brass, wood, ivory handles and perforated cloth

France

c. 1880

5" x 11"

A snow effect slide.

4115