Popular magic lantern, (black painted tin, 16 in. H)

OBJECT TYPE: Projector
MANUFACTURER: T.H. McAllister
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: USA, NY, New York
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: McAllister's Popular Magic Lantern
PATENT DATE: April 6, 1886
IMAGE SIZE: 18.0cm X 10.0cm
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: ~$25.00
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: magic lantern

NOTES:
  black metal & brass; rests on two legged base under slide slot and on
  oil storage box
  no real lamphouse; flat elliptical chimney with cover
  2-wick lamp
  stenciled below lens: "McAllister - Optician - New York"
  inscription in back: "PATd April 6th 1886"
  plaque in back: "T.H. McAllister - M'F'G Optician. N.Y. - Patented -
  April 6, 1886"
  some rusting
  has chain and clip attached underneath lens
  rack and pinion lens
  lens has leather cap
  measurements: 41.3cm H X 13.3cm W X 35.0cm L
  McAllister's "Popular" Magic Lantern

MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: glass

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: M1142.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: T.H. McAllister. --Catalogue of Stereopticons, Dissolving-View Apparatus and Magic Lanterns; With List of Several Thousand Artistically-Finished Views for the Illustration of all Subjects of Popular Interest.-- New York: T.H. McAllister, 1890 February. 38.//