Beau Ideal

Beau Ideal

Lantern Slide

Combined Photo Industries, Inc.

American, active 1920s

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Distribution company
American, 1929 – 1959

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Production company
American, 1929 – 1959

Herbert Brenon

Director
Irish, 1880–1958

Beau Ideal

1931
Gelatin silver on glass mounted in cardboard frame
Overall: 3 1/4 × 4 in. (8.3 × 10.2 cm)
Gift of Dwight Cleveland
2023.0012.0045
Inscriptions Stamped in red ink on TL edge of cardboard frame on recto: BEAU IDEAL / DIST.
Handwritten in pencil on TC edge of cardboard frame on recto: Sunday MAY 24
Printed in black ink on left side of cardboard frame on recto: COMBINED PHOTO INDUSTRIES, Inc. / 68 HUNTERS POINT AVE., L. I. CITY, N. Y.
Printed in black ink on right side of cardboard frame on recto: SLIDES, PHOTOS, ENLARGEMENTS
Handwritten in purple ink on blank space at bottom of glass on recto: Wed & Thurs.
Stamped twice on TL and BR edge of cardboard frame on verso: 23360

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