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Lantern Slide - The Spectre Pig
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
2008.023.97

Lantern slide in color. Image shows a scene from the poem "The Spectre Pig" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The image shows a man holding onto the tail of a pale pig. It is nighttime and it appears as if the pig and man are flying. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "7. The shadowy spectre swept before. The butcher trailed behind." "Economic Series" is printed in silver lettering on black frame on other side of slide.


For further information, Blog post, August 9, 2019, https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2019/08/the-art-of-storytelling.html