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Title: The haunted swing - '49 Mining Camp
Creator: Floorman, I. S
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Description: 2009-0143.
Single slide in: Magic lantern slides : California Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco, 1894, no. 35.
Shows men and women in front of entrance to exhibit building - "Strangest Thing on Earth, The Haunted Swing" above doorway.
Located in the Midway Plaisance, swing was located in furnished parlor. Room's interior rotated around swing, giving illusion that swing was actually moving.
Black paper mask, cover glass and taped edges.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Restricted: slides not available for public viewing.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Projected graphic
Projected medium
Extent: 1 slide : lantern, b/w ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001393181CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6538
Language: English
Subject: California Midwinter International Exposition, (1894 :. San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Exhibition buildings--California--San Francisco
Fairs--California--San Francisco
Amusement rides--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Lantern slides
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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