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This early slide projector was made around 1910 by the German toymaking firm of Carette.
It uses a paraffin lamp as the light source, the chimney on top is to let the heat out. The glass slides have pictures printed on them and are moved sideways by hand. The distance to the screen (usually a wall) was normally only a metre or two and the room had to be very dark in order to see the pictures.
Most children had few, if any, toys so something such as this would have been a prized possession. Giving a simple slide show would have been a great event involving most of the family as projecting pictures on to a wall was almost magical. Remember there were no televisions or radios in those days and very few houses even in cities had electricity with gas, paraffin lamps or candles being the usual method of illumination depending on where you lived.

 

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