Pair of Baker Dissolving View Lanterns

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1865-1875 in London

C Baker, Optician, 244 High Holburn, Lodon. Wooden bodies; japanned metal fronts with brass lenses, rack focused, with pivoted caps. Probably for oil burners; lamps missing; tall chimneys missing, but simulations made for display. In box with fitting for comb dissolver, instructions for Newton's Reflugent lamps pasted inside lid.

Details

Category:
Cinematography
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/8554
type:
lantern slide projector
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

Parts

Pair of Baker Dissolving View Lanterns

Pair of Baker Dissolving View Lanterns

C Baker, Optician, 244 High Holburn, Lodon. Wooden bodies; japanned metal fronts with brass lenses, rack focused, with pivoted caps. Probably for oil burners; lamps missing; tall chimneys missing, but simulations made for display. In box with fitting for comb dissolver, instructions for Newton's Reflugent lamps pasted inside lid.

Object Number:
1990-5036/8554/1
type:
lantern slide projector