Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide in a handmade wood frame. Slide depicts a man punching a “Saloon” signpost. The slide can be manipulated so the man’s arm moves in a punching motion.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1904
Hand painted lanternslide in a handmade wood frame. Slide depicts a man reaching for a cowboy boot when a snake appears. The slide can be manipulated so the man’s hand…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1910
Hand painted glass lanternslide depicting a man reaching for a mug of beer. The slide can be manipulated so temperance advocate Carry Nation appears with a hatchet from the mug,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting a dentist’s office, inside a handmade wood frame. Slide depicts a man having a tooth pulled by a dentist. The slide can be manipulated so the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting Santa Claus, inside a handmade wood frame. The image is created by two slides sandwiched together in the frame; one containing the image of Santa in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1866
Hand painted glass lanternslide in a handmade wood frame. This slide depicts a politician before (smiling) and after (grumpy) an election. The slide can be manipulated so the politician shakes…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide of a man wearing a Freemasons sash and apron, in a handmade wood frame. The slide can be manipulated so the man’s arm moves up and down…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1866
Hand painted glass lanternslide in a handmade wood frame. This slide has two images, one of a man cooking at a stove, and the other of a wife threatening her…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting a woman lighting a candle, in a handmade wooden frame. The slide can be manipulated so the woman’s arm moves to light the candle. Part of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1873
Hand painted lanternslide in a handmade wood frame. Painted slide depicts U.S. Senator Samuel Pomeroy reaching into “The Public Crib” (treasury) for Kansas Senator Alexander York. Just prior to the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted glass lanternslide titled “Witches – Ancient and Modern,” inside handmade wooden frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913. Reader…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1896
Hand tinted photographic glass lanternslide of Samuel Reader, taken in 1896. This picture accompanied an article that appeared in the Topeka Mail and Kansas Breeze newspaper on May 22, 1896,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting the bust of a man in profile, inside a handmade wooden frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide inside handmade wooden frame. Glass slide depicts two scenes; on the left, four men pull hard at the tail of a donkey titled “OFFICES,” and on the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted glass lanternslide depicting a politician holding out a shoe’s sole to the Devil, with the text, “A sole, instead of a soul.” Handmade wood frame. The slide can…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1904
This is a hand painted lantern slide depicting a man with horns, inside a handmade wood frame. The slide can be manipulated so the man becomes a werewolf. These images…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
This is a hand painted lanternslide depicting the face of a frightened man, his mouth hanging open in a frown, inside a handmade wooden frame. The slide can be manipulated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1866
Hand painted lanternslide with handmade wood frame. The slide depicts Satan, and has moveable eyes that change from black to red. This was one of the first lanternslides made by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1866
Hand painted lanternslide of the Grim Reaper (skeleton holding a sickle) inside a handmade walnut frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Pair of hand painted lanternslides depicting a skull and a ghost, inside handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide with handmade wood frame. The title of this lanternslide is Chicken Cholera, and it depicts an imaginative version of this disease that affected a variety of birds…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide of a lion smoking a pipe, housed inside a handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting an elephant, inside a handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913. Reader was a Kansas…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide depicting a cat, inside a handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913. Reader was a Kansas…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1866 and 1913
Hand painted lanternslide holding two panes, depicting a butterfly and a robin, inside a handmade wood frame. This slide is part of a collection made by Samuel Reader between 1866…
