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Transparency, Lantern Slide
Object/Artifact
Johann Falk - German Magic Lantern Slide bordered in orange paper. Black background with four scenes from L-R: a woman at a market (?) wearing a green dress holding a pig in one arm and a basket on the other, a man in a blue robe holding a baby, a woman in a red dress holding a yellow umbrella has a small white dog biting the bottom of her dress a man in blue and yellow in the background, a man in a yellow jacket smoking a pipe walking in a park.
2022.08.021
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Johann Falk
Germany
Central Europe
Europe
2 in
7 in
Glass