Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Gies & Co.'s living photograph : patent applied for : draw thumb over top edge and pictures will appear as if alive : pictures are taken by special photographic machinery invented by us.

Accession number
PML 253014
Published
[Buffalo, N.Y.] : Gies & Co., [approximately 1890?]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
A flip book whose leaves, when flipped, reveals a man and woman kissing, then fighting.
Leaves attached at bottom of volume.
Library's copy housed in green buckram solander box by J.P.W.
Description
83 unnumbered leaves : all illustrations ; 57 x 40 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Purple brown wrappers with backed in simulated leather of tan embossed paper.
Classification
Department