Broadside advertisement for "Latham's Eidoloscope Exhibition of Living Motion Pictures": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Broadside advertisement for "Latham's Eidoloscope Exhibition of Living Motion Pictures," an early exhibition of motion picture projection held at 156 Broadway in New York City in May or June 1896. The Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, their father Woodville, and Franco-American inventor Eugene Lauste formed a motion picture firm called the Lambda Company which built one of the first movie projectors, the Eidoloscope, and made and exhibited films before folding in 1898. This broadside advertised a screening of a boxing film depicting the May 1896 fight between Young Griffo and Charley Barnett.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: May 1896
• maker: Lambda Company
• Object Name: broadside
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: printed (overall production method/technique)
• Measurements: overall: 24.1 cm x 15 cm; 9 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in
• referenced: Motion Pictures
• ID Number: PG.72.15
• catalog number: 72.15
• accession number: 299555
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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