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McAllister, W.Y. (attributed)
American (active ca 1850s-1870s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: "Ratcatcher"

ca. 1867
lantern slide, painting on glass
10.3 x 18.0 x 1.1 cm
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
78:0469:0015

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 56 / 50

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil) "50" bottom-(in ink) "56. Ratcatcher"

FRAME: wood frame

NOTES: Cataluded by S.E. 12/28/98 mechanical magic lantern slide--in color slip and pivot combo man sleeping, as mouse runs into his mouth title slide appears in W.Y. McAllister catalogue catalogue (1867) under the number which appears on slide (#56) also appears in later McAllister catalogue (1890) under a different number (#81) and in a C.T. Milligan catalogue under name "Rat-eater" and different number (#251) similar to 92:1050:0009; 78:0468:0028; 78:0469:0002 and _______ (no accession number as of yet)

SUBJECTS:
people
animal
event, comical

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