Mutoscope, Iron Horse Unpainted Indian

Mutoscope, Iron Horse Unpainted Indian

Viewer

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Maker
American, ca. 1894–1930

Mutoscope, Iron Horse Unpainted Indian

ca. 1900
Metal
Overall: 54 3/4 × 18 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (139.1 × 46.4 × 46.4 cm)
Gift of Douglass Crockwell
1993.0101.0002
DescriptionRusted-metal, vaulted, electrically lit, hand-cranked mutoscope with coin slot, coin reservior, view port, and light shroud. The mutoscope mechanism is incomplete and would accept a 1000 flip-card spool.
Inscriptions Embossed in metal on front of projector: MUTOSCOPE NEW YORK / Embossed in metal inside mutoscope: 28, 83X119 / Inscribed in white on back of mutoscope: 93:101:02

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