Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Lantern Slide - Paul Revere's Ride
1895-1925
A. D. Handy Stereopticons and Supplies
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Glass
overall: 3-3/16"h x 4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Anne R. Berntsen
2008.023.43

Lantern slide in black and white. Image shows a scene from the story of Paul Revere's ride. A man on horseback stops by a building and talks to men leaning out of an upper window. A road marker is visible in the foreground. A church is in the background at left. There are several stars in the sky. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "6. - "It was one by the village clock, / When he galloped into Lexington." A label printed in black at the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, 21 Bromfield St., Boston." Handwritten in black ink is "Paul Revere's Ride."