Magic lantern slide (Underground train)

United States, c. 1950

Object On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Previously on display

23 June 2023

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

creator

Maker not documented

Production places
United States
Production dates
c. 1950

Appears in

Group of items

Trains and stations slides

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

AEO187877

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-02. Play and Illusion → MI-02-C01 → Panel A4

Object Types

3D Object

Glass slide/Pictorial

Materials

glass, ink, gum arabic tape

Collected

3 times

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