Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Lantern Slide - The Snow Ball
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
2008.023.133

Lantern slide in color showing "The Snow Ball." A woman with a red dress and hand muff and man with a blue suit jacket and a bowler hat stand on a snowy hill. The man holds the woman's hand. A black and white label with the words "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons and Supplies, Boston" is applied to one end of the slide. On the other side of slide typed in black is "The Snow Ball--5. 'Where Mehitable Smith met Mister Sam Gray.'" Printed in black on other side is "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, 17 Broomfield St., Boston." "Economic Series" is printed twice in silver letters within black frame on other side of slide.

For further information, see blog post, December 17, 2020, https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2020/12/magic-lanterns-slides-and-snow-balls.html