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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
2008.023.99

Lantern slide in color. Image shows a scene from the poem "The Spectre Pig" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The image shows a man in bed with his hands up and being terrorized by a dead pig with a slit throat. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "6. Now wake, now wake, thou butcher man! What makes thy cheek so pale?" "Economic Series" is printed in silver lettering on black frame on other side of slide.