"Countyard of a Temple Sungkiang", ca. 1920.
Damaged tinted glass lantern slide showing early historical view with billboards advertising Asahi Beer and Jintan in Tientsin China. 1910s (?)
"Using the Chop Sticks."
China, 1920s (?).
Chinese Children with Governess (?), c.1890
Chinese Children, c. 1890s
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A page of Willem ’s Gravesande’s 1720 book Physices Elementa Mathematica with Jan van Musschenbroek’s magic lantern, an early type of image projector, projecting a monster. The depicted lantern is one of the oldest known to be preserved and is in the collection of Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
John Thomson, FRGS , 'Magic Lantern' Peep Show, 1877.