Optigraph #2
Projector
Enterprise Optical Manufacturing Company
American, 1900s–1920s
Optigraph #2
ca 1900
Metal, wood and glass
Overall: 19 1/4 × 8 × 22 1/4 in., 11.2 lb. (48.9 × 20.3 × 56.5 cm, 5.1 kg)
1988.0088.0010
DescriptionBlack with gold stripes, rectangular, 35mm, hand-crank projector with barrel shutter, projection lens, five-wick oil-burning lamphouse mounted on wood base.
Inscriptions Engraved in metal on film gate: PAT. APLD FOR / Engraved in metal on back of oil basin: PARIS ETÉ SCOS No. 126217 TRADE MARK V 8C L, LONDON PATENT NO 718 BERLIN PAT[illegible] / Inscribed in white on oil basin: 88:88:10 / Inscribed in white on base of projector: 88:88:10
