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lantern slide

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lantern slide
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) (formerly) a photographic slide for projection, used in a magic lantern
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Noun1.lantern slidelantern slide - a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
slide
transparency, foil - picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
positive - a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject


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Harvard's Francis Loeb library has this great collection of 2800 slides--actually they are lantern slides so don't expect full glowing colour--of American buildings and landscapes built between 1850 and 1920.
One for the dominees by Lyall, Sutherland / The Architectural Review
Crowfoot added that she remembered "seeing both ladies giving illustrated talks with lantern slides on visits to Saint John, N.
What would Jesus drive? A Model T Ford, perhaps: `vanners' did Lord's ... by Anglican Journal
This setup will work effectively as a metaphor for photographic projection itself, in which a small-scale original (a magic lantern slide or a strip of film) reappears blown-up to monumental size on an opposite flat surface.
Projected Images by LUBIN, DAVID M. / Artforum International
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