Media Archaeology

Magic Lantern Demonstrations

Featuring 19th Century and early 20th century lantern slides and projectors; gearwork mechanical lantern slides (including astronomical and chromatropes); animated slip-slides; dissolving views; narrative slide sets; fraternal slides (Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias).

Magic lantern ephemera.

Phantasmagoria presentation, with reproduciton 18th century-style lantern slides.

Joel Schlemowitz and Dawn Elliott photographed by Rose Callahan


Presentations have taken place at:

  • Boscobel House and Gardens Museum, Garrison NY
  • NYU Cinema Studies, New York NY
  • Locust Lawn Historic House Museum, Gardiner NY
  • New-York Historical Society, New York NY
  • The Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn NY

Victrola DJ

Featuring 1920s portable Victrola; 1910s horn Vic 1; Edison Standard Cylinder Player.

Phonograph ephemera.

78 records: 1920s jazz and dance bands; WW1-related music; opera (Caruso, et al); 1910s and 1920s popular music; 1920s prohibition-related songs.

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Joel Schlemowitz and Dawn Elliott playing original WWI-era records on a portable Victrola

and Edison cylinder player at Historic Cherry Hill, Albany NY, photographed by Michael Joyce


Presentations have taken place at:

  • Historic Cherry Hill, Albany NY
  • Museum Village, Monroe NY
  • Schuyler Mansion, Albany NY

Inquiries: email joel@joelschlemowitz.com