Dissolving Magic Lantern
Projector
Charles T. Milligan
American, ca. 1890s–1930s
Dissolving Magic Lantern
ca. 1880
Metal, glass, leather and wood
Overall (projector): 18 1/4 × 7 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (46.4 × 18.4 × 49.5 cm)
Overall (case): 20 1/4 × 9 × 21 in. (51.4 × 22.9 × 53.3 cm)
Overall (shutter): 16 × 6 × 1/2 in. (40.6 × 15.2 × 1.3 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1100.0001
DescriptionCrackled black, rectangular, dissolving, electric slide projector with condenser lenses, projection lenses, red leather-covered lens caps, red leather bellows, 100-watt lamps, two slide holders and 2-blade shutter in original black and white, marble-covered wood case.
Inscriptions Engraved in silver on product plates on condenser lens housing: C.T. MILLIGAN MANUFACTURER PHILA. PA / Written in blue on tag: 92 / Written in black on tag: 275
