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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3291457, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s indeed a very neat acquisition! Lantern slides like this were very popular in the academic teaching of art history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They worked a little bit like later photographic slides or today&#039;s PowerPoint presentations. My guess is that you picked up part of an art history professor&#039;s or department&#039;s deacquisitioned slide collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to illustrate, here is a 19th c. British advertisement for a magic lantern:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]870233[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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