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Lantern Slide - Execution of Bridget Bishop at Salem
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
2008.023.1

Lantern slide in black and white. Central image shows a woman standing on the back of a two-wheeled cart; a man is putting a noose around her neck. All figures wear 17th-century style clothing. There are men, women and children watching. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "Execution of Bridget Bishop at Salem - 1692." A label printed in black applied to the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, 17 Bromfield St., Boston." Handwritten on this label in black is "Period 1607-1692."