Night Baseball glass Slide

This Keystone View Company studios; Magic Lantern slide 94 (L56091) "Lights-Outdoor Lighting for Sports and Safety," is part of the General Science Units series used for education. The slide features electric lights for baseball stadiums, enabling night games. Other General Science Units, magic lantern slides from this series include; 85 (L56082) "Light-Lenses and Instruments That Use Them," 93 (L56090) "Light-indoor Light For Clear Vision," and 99 (L56095) "Lights-Lights of Mystery"

The first baseball game played under electric lighting took place in 1880, the year after Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Fifty years later, the first official minor league night game took place in Independence, Kansas on April 28, 1930. It wasn't until 1935 when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game.

Located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images. From 1892 through 1963 Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes. They also produced Magic Lantern slides and lantern slide projection equipment. The 3.25 by 4 inch glass slides were the ancestor of the better-known 2 by 2 inch slide film transparencies. Over the years hundreds of educational sets were marketed to schools throughout the country, to teach geography, social studies, science, history and reading.

Also known as Optical lantern slides they were used as a form of entertainment before there were movies and television. The slides were viewed by using an artificial light source and a combination of lenses (Magic Lantern) that would enlarged the small transparent images and projected them onto a wall or screen. Back in the day Oil lamps were used to illuminate the slides.

"Magic Lanterns" date as far back to the 1700s and earlier. While most magic lanterns were designed as simple wooden boxes fitted with a handful of precision brass parts, a few were ornately decorated with exotic painted scenes or engraved metal casings. The glass slides were also used as an advertising medium, inserted into magic lantern projectors at local movie theaters between acts when they changed the reels. These slides were used into the 1950's when the Magic lanterns were replaced with slide projectors.

Keystone Night Baseball Magic Lantern Glass Slide Verso

Keystone View Co. Night Baseball Optical Lantern Slide Verso

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