Summary

Coloured lantern slide of an advertisment..

One of 328 images in various formats including artworks, photographs, glass negatives and lantern slides.

Description of Content

Advertisement for Sennitt's ice cream. The slide is painted blue with a picture of a white polar bear licking a vanilla ice cream and a young boy crying. Bear In mind Sennitt's. This was the highlight of the slides when we showed the glass slides or lantern slides on the magic lantern. We all knew that it was time to have an ice cream and Sennitt's if possible, but sometimes it was homemade (when Eric Douglas was showing the slides in the 1940's and 1950's this was our routine). Besides, the lantern ran 'hot' and had to be left for awhile to cool down. Date circa 1931.

Physical Description

Lantern slide consists of a hand painted colour image on glass plate. The image is protected with a cover glass of the same size. Paper is inserted in between the two pieces of glass and the whole slide is bound together with paper tape.

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