Mu 1511

Abstract Photograph viewer in the form of a wooden box covered in velvet, containing two rollers, with a viewing window on the top. By turning one of two knobs on the front of the device, the viewer can move forward or back through a roll of photographs on the two rollers. The roll contains many reproductions of engravings or lithographs in addition to (unidentified) portrait photographs. The images are in carte de visite format, but inserted into a continuous roll of paper photo frames. Images...