Five Lantern Slides, America, late 19th/early 20th century, a slide of a photograph of Empress Dowager Cixi, ht. 3 1/8, wd. 4, a slide of a portrait painting, possibly Emperor Tongzhi (1862-1874), ht. 3 1/8, wd. 4, a slide of a photograph of a rural road, China, labeled indistinctly at left, ht. 3 1/8, wd. 4, a slide of a photograph of a tea plantation, China, hand-colored, labeled "19 Tea Plantation" at left, ht. 3 1/8, wd. 4, a slide of a photograph of three merchants beside a cart, China, hand-colored, labeled "The Shop" at left, ht. 3 1/8, wd. 4 in.

Condition: losses to paper at edges of slides, tea plantation slide missing upper left and bottom right corners, glass cracked on both portrait slides.

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