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A Wonderful animated or moving picture exhibition illustrating the highest attainment in the art of photography ... : and a magnificent stereopticon exhibition, illustrating our new possessions ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection oversize flat file PN1993.5.U6 W554
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet : illustrations ; 71 x 54 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Sears, Roebuck & Co., [1899?]
- Notes:
- Print on pink paper. An image on the left shows people sitting in a movie theater setting, and an image on the right shows oxen pulling carts among palm trees in a countryside setting. Promotional text reads "A Wonderful Animated or Moving Picture Exhibition ... Illustrating our new Possessions and 'Free Cuba' ... The Greatest Invention of the Age, Animated Pictures, life-life motion; life size .. The Philippines, The Ladrones, Hawaii and Porto [sic] Rico, illustrated throughout with 52 magnificent views projected from the stereopticon ... "
- "...fruitful and beautiful countries which have lately been acquired by the United States."
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gotham Book Mart.
- Exhibited: "Wise Men Fished Here: A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920–2020," University of Pennsylvania Libraries, February 18 – May 20, 2019
- OCLC:
- 9373019
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