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
2008.023.132

Lantern slide in color showing "The Snow Ball." Three boys roll a giant snow ball down a hill. The snow ball rolls into a pig at the bottom of the hill. The pig flies into the air as two of the three boys raise their hats off their heads. 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--4. 'And left the poor pig and the ball to their fate.'" 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