Lantern slides : how to make and color them
A 1895 New York how-to manual by photographer Dwight L. Elmendorf, published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., explaining how amateur photographers made and hand-colored lantern slides for projection. The pictures are plain halftone photographs and line engravings of equipment: a wooden slide-storage box, a hinged slide-printing frame on a stand, a bench setup with beakers and tools, and a magic lantern with a slide carrier. A designer could take from them the period look of tidy Victorian apparatus drawn in crisp black line.
