Anonymous

Letterpress

Great Britain

1827

13 1/4" x 8 1/4"

A broadside for a series of entertainments at London's Drury Lane theatre. One part of the show is described as " Castle Hall, Introducing the Effects of the Laterna Magica" by Stanfield (Clarkson Stanfield. Stansfield, not known as a magic lantern performer, was a famous marine painter and designer of moving panoramas.

4536

Anonymous

Letterpress

Russia

1833

16 1/2" x 10

This is a broadside for a magic lantern show by Heinrich Michaud, the same performer who offered a Fantasmagorie show in St. Petersburg (#1354) during the same year. Interestingly this show has no mention of Fantasmagorie effects and featured images of the Summer Landscape, Warsaw and Riga, Sunrise over Berlin, Peter the Great at Lake Ladoga and the show concludes with Hydraulic Artificial Items in Glass.

2972

Letterpress

Great Britain

1841

14 1/2" x 9 3/4"

A broadside for an extensive program including some acts a fireworks display and the showing of "The Protean Scenes" (magic lantern dissolving slides). The slides include Mt. Vesuvius Eruption, Constantinople, Buckingham Palace, and St. Paul's.

4445

Beckett, Printer

Letterpress

Great Britain

1844

19 3/4" x 10"

0083

Letterpress

America

1845

9 3/4" x 7 1/4"

A broadside advertising an entertainment with a microscope as well as magic lantern dissolving views and chromotropes.

4682

Letterpress

America

1845

12 1/4" x 9 1/4"

A broadside advertising the traveling magic lantern show of Mr. Rice to be held in Royalston, Massachusetts. Most of the views, referred to as "Transparent paintings" rather than magic lantern slides were of a religious nature. In addition there were pictures of various sites, and a few kaleidoscopic slides and dissolving views.

4118

Letterpress

Great Britain

c. 1860

6" x 8"

2708

Letterpress

America

c. 1860

8 1/2" x 6"

2713

Letterpress

America

1864

20 1/4” x 6 1/2

George Hopkins show offering a full program including "The Ghost" (Pepper's ghost) as well as a glimpse of the whole world. The broadside asserts that half the proceeds will go to support wounded and sick soldiers.

4421

Letterpress

America

c. 1870

20" x 14"

Broadside of a show about the civil war advertising 100 dissolving views. The description are touted to be by Charles N. Thomas, formerly of the famous Boston Gettysburg Cyclorama. What's more the broadside boldly states it not a magic lantern show but a Stereopticon entertainment. The stereopticon was a type of magic lantern with a more powerful light source.

2882

Letterpress

Great Britain

c. 1870

17 1/4" x 11"

1521

Letterpress

Great Britain

c. 1870

30" x 10"

This effect named after the former director of London's Royal Polytechnic, John Henry Pepper, amused and startled audiences. A ghost seemed to appear on a stage. The illusion was created using a hidden magic lantern below the stage an actor dressed as a ghost and a very large angled sheet of glass mirrored to seemingly project the reflected apparition upon the stage. The effect was first successfully demonstrated at the Royal Polytechnic in 1863,

The broadside advertises a show of Pepper's Ghost given by Mr. James Madison, who was for a time employed as a magician at the Royal Polytechnic.

3175

Letterpress

America

1874

4" x 3"

3386

Letterpress

America

c. 1875

9 1/4" x 4 1/2"

1347

Colored wood engraving

Great Britain

c. 1880

19 1/2" x 12 1/2"

The ghost illusion by Clark is a version of "Pepper's Ghost".

4014

Oil on canvas

America

c. 1880

32" x 24"

This homemade broadside was probably used by a lnaternist with place and time filled in at each new location.

0085

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

24" x 8"

This broadside advertises Mr. Bamber's fifth annual tour and promises both new attractions and a show better than ever before, and all for only one thin dime.

0075

Wood engraving

America

c.1880

26" x 7"

Broadside illustrates the "Life of the lowly" in New York's notorious five points area. The lecture is based on book by Jacob Riis by the same name.

0076

Wood engraving

America

c.1880

22" x 8"

Broadside advertising the magic lantern show of G. W. Lloyd. He brags of giving " A Splendid Intellectural & Amusing Entertainment for Old and Young".

0077

Wood engraving

America

c. 1880

21" x 7"

This boradside advertises Mr. G.J. Pitman's magic lantern show and was printed by Times Job Press, Boston.

0078

Sandford & Carr Printers

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

20" x 7"

This broadside advertises the attractions at Mr. Jacob W. Boody's "Instructive Museum". Among the many attractions which include a pig with six legs, a japanese opium box and pipe, is a magic lantern with 168 views.

0079

Anon

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

22 1/2" x 8 1/2"

This fantastic poster for a magic lantern show tries to capture the visual popularity of the panorma by announing itself in small letters Great Stereopticon and then in bold large letters PANORAMA.

In a wonderful notice the exhibitors state: " In present our Exhibition to the public we agree to exhibit each and every view that is on our bills, or we obligate ourselves to refund the money at the close of the entertainment."

0080

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

18 1/2" x 8 1/4"

Printed in Ithaca New York this broadside advertises a Civil War Stereopticon show to be held at Clinton Hall

2442

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

9 1/4" x 5 1/4"

4143

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

9" x 5 5/8"

4654

Colored lithograph

America

c. 1880

24" x 30"

Mr William Denton was a Professor of Geology at Boston University. He lectured widely including talks about fossil discoveries at Rancho La Brea.

1697

Wood & hand-painted glass

America

c. 1880

4" x 7"

A slide from Denton's Illustrated Scientific Lectures

2828

Letterpress

America

1880

11 3/4" x 5 3/4"

Hoggson & Robinson Printers

0091

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

9 1/4" x 5 1/4"

4143

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

12" x 6"

4479

Letterpress

Great Britain

1880

7" x 4 1/2"

4352

Letterpress

America

1886

13 ¼” x 4”

Ober's magic lantern show with 80 dissolving views.

4422

Letterpress

America

1889

6 1/4" x 3 3/4"

A four page booklet advertising a show focused on the Johnstown floods which occurred only months prior.

4296

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

23" x 12"

1532

Letterpress

America

c.1880

9" x 6"

2711

Letterpress

America

c. 1880

9 1/2" x 6"

3512

Letterpress

America

1884

17 1/2" x 11"

0089

Letterpress

America

1885

Page: 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", special notice 3" x 5"

A program for Ragan's magic lantern show of travels through Europe to be put on for the 1885-1886 seasons.

2789

Wood engraving

America

c. 1885

24" x 9"

Published by Beers and Kissinger, Rome, N. Y. Millious a well known magician also did magic lantern shows.

1242

Letterpress

America

c. 1885

13 1/2" x 5 1/2"

An advertisement for Mr. M. J. Millious' magic lantern show.

0082

Colored letterpress

America

1887

8" x 2 1/2"

Program for a show from "Tully's Magnificently Illustrated Entertainments"

4031

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

17 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Rev. E. S. Ufford's show of life among the urban poor in London.

4634

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

18 1/2" x 8"

A broadside advertising a magic lantern show called "stereorama" given by D.C. Kilbourne.

0081

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

11 31/2" x 4 3/4"

1353

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

11" x 5 1/2"

A broadside advertising the show of J.N. Easterly. The programme states " This entertainment is for the benefit of the Manager, who is a badly crippled soldier."

1304

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

15 1/4" x 7 1/4"

A broadside advertising Professor Teel's show focusing on the Johnston Disaster(flood). This show is augmented with scripture slides and colored chromotropes and Teel makes a final note to the public, "Knowing there are a great many entertainments traveling through the country humbugging and disgusting to the people, I will therefore say to the public, if there should be any man woman or child attnd one of my entertainments who is not perfectly satisfied, I will willingly refund the money."

0094

Wood engraving

Great Britain

c. 1890

7" x 5"

0090

America

Letterpress

c. 1890

21" x 13 3/4"

An advertisment for the lantern show given by Reverend Charles F. Stanley.

0084

Wood engraving

America

c. 1890

23 1/2" x 17 1/2"

A four page publications of the Morrill twins advertising and extoling their religious stereopticon programmes. The brothers were from Chicago.

0092

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

12" x 5 3/4"

Printed by Baur & Son, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

2448

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

11" x 8"

2710

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

10" x 7"

4104

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

8" x 4 1/2"

2709

Wood engraving

America

c. 1890

8" x 5"

3791

Letterpress

America

c. 1890

9" x 3 1/2"

3793

Letterpress

America

c. 1891

6" x 10"

3673

Letterpress

Great Britain

1893

30" x 20"

A broadside advertising the show of  Mr. Fredrick T. Corkett to be given on Feb. 11,1893.

0086

Letterpress

America

1895

6 1/2" x 6 1/2"

2714

Letterpress

America

1895

9 1/4" x 6"

A broadside announcing two shows, primarily of photographic slides. the first is of the South Sea Islands, and the second, by the well-known photographer, I.W. Taber, of the Hawaiian Islands.

4474

Letterpress

America

c. 1897

17" x 6"

A magic lantern broadside by rebranded as "Great Polyorama" and the lantern is referred to as an Optical Lantern (to make it sound more scientific). Show in several parts includes a Tour of of the Slums of Our Great Cities and of Yellowstone National Park.

There is an added notice about illustrations from the Klondike. All of America got gold fever and over 100,000 people made their way to Alaska. 30,000 arrived and nearly 4,000 found some gold.

4301

Letterpress

America

1897

24" x 18"

An advertisement for a magic lantern show with " 50 Magnificent Views" accompanied by the "Wonderful Talking Machine". Printed by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago.

0088

Letterpress

Great Britain

1898

7" x 5"

2712

Photo line cut

America

1899

14" x 21"

Advertisement for a magic lantern show about the Spanish American War and the Battleship Maine which was sent to Havana in january 1898 to protect American interests. Printed by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago.

0087

Photo line cut

America

c. 1900

28" x 21"

This broadside, published by Sears Roebuck & Co. advertises the use of movies as well as 52 magnificiant magic lantern slides claiming this program will five you "more information in two hours enertainment than in many days' reading".

1261

Color lithograph

America

c.1900

13 1/2" x 9 1/2"

This small broadside came with Cosmos Magic Lantern and would allow children to advertise their shows just like professionals.

0096

Letterpress

America

1904

10 1/2" x 4 1/2"

3475

Letterpress

America

1908

13" x 6"

A broadside accompanied by a letter from the presenter "Ben Brave" trying to drum up business.

2794