Catalogue of stereopticons, dissolving view apparatus, magic lanterns : and list of over 3000 carefully selected views for the illustration of subjects of popular interest. (1867)

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McAllister, Optician, 49 Nassau St., New Yobk. 11 UENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE MAGIC LANTERN. The following directions are intended merely as a guide to those unacquainted with the manage- ment of the Magic Lantern. Practice will soon suggest to the operator many methods of rendering the exhibition a pleasant and profitable amusement. The lamp should be carefully trimmed, and filled with the best oil, the flame to stand aa high as possible, so that it does not smoke. The greatest cleanliness should be observed with the lamp, and when not in use the oil should be drained out. All the lenses should be taken out previously to each exhibition, and carefully wiped out with a soft niuslin or linen cloth. The room being fully darkened, the lantern should be placed upon a table, about six or eight feet from a white wall, or a white sheet suspended on a wall; or it is frequently preferable to make use of a muslin screen stretched on a frame, the lantern being on one side and the specta- tors on the other; and it is recommended to wet the screen that it may be drawn tighter, and also rendered more transparent. To make a waxed muslin screen, mix turpentine and white beeswax in the proportion of two parts wax and one part turpentine; heat it over a fluid lamp until all is dissolved; then in a warm room, apply it with a painter's brush over the screen, and afterwards smooth the screen with a common iron, heated a little—the screen should be stretched on a frame. This makes an excellent screen when you want to have your lantern behind the screen; the glare of the lamp does not come through, but it cracks and becomes yellow if kept folded up, gets dirty very easily, and is troublesome to prepare. The lamp having been lighted and placed in the lantern, close the door of the lantern and move the lamp backwards or forwards until a perfect circle is formed on the wall or screen; the lamp is then known to be in its proper position—much depends upon this. The sliders are placed in the slit in front of the lantern, with the picture inverted where they will be firmly held and kept in the central line of the lenses, by McAllister's newly invented slide spring and stop, and the focus adjusted by moving the front lenses. The farther the lantern is from the wall or screen, the larger will be the image, but the illumination will not be so penect as when closer. To Produce the Phantasmagoria Effect. The operator should be on one side of the screen, as already described, and the spectators on the other. Taking the lantern under his left arm, he should go up pretty close to the screen and adjust the focus with his right hand. The image, of course, will be very small; he must then walk slowly backward, at the same time adjusting the focus. As the image increases in size, it will appear to the spectators to be coming towards them; and then again let him walk up towards the screen, thus diminishing the image, and it will appear to them as if receding. The screen not being seen, the image appears to be suspended in the air, and the deception is com- plete, even to those accustomed to the exhibition. Slides producing the best Phantasmagoria effect are those containing but one or two figures, and all the rest of the glass painted black; such for instance, as some of the comic slip slides. Constantly on hand a very large assortment of beautifully executed Photographic Sliders, elucidating every branch of popular knowledge, and every department of pub- lic interest, to which the attention of Teachers, Superintendents of Sunday Schools, and Public Lecturers is invited. „___________„_ ^^*F-a,cli view, except when otherwise described, i§ three inch* es in diameter, ja.ap.«I i§ mounted separately, ua a mahogany frame of four inches wide and seven inches loaasr. $2.75 per slide. Photographed from the Best Pictures to be obtained, and Finely Colobed, Arranged in Five Parts. A—The prominent events, Battles, Skirmishes, etc. S—Incidents of Camp Life and Soldier Life. C—Views of Places of Interest in connection with the Rebellion. D—Pictures of an Allegorical, Emblematical and Comical character. E—Portraits of Prominent Officers. This series of Views of the War has been selected with great care from a collection ol about 1000 views; it comprises illustrations of all the prominent events of the war which will remain as permanent matters of history, and omitting those minor events which were merely of tempo^ rary importance. i > ■> These views can be shown with any of the Lanterns; but to give the most perfect satisfaction, and bring out all the details of the views, they require the Oxy-Calcium or Oxy-Hydrogen light