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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
2008.023.98

Lantern slide in color. Image shows a scene from the poem "The Spectre Pig" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The image shows a pig with a slit throat running out of a barn at nighttime. A clock tower is pictured in the background. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "5. And hooting owl, and hovering bat, On midnight wing attended." "Economic Series" is printed in silver lettering on black frame on other side of slide.