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Machine Lending Library Collections
Toys and Amusements
Entertainment for the whole family -- all toys and amusements with mechanisms that project pictures, create animation, generate illusions, produce movement and more!
Balloon Inflation Machine (1)
Balloon inflation machine (2)
Wooden noisemaker
Wind-up car
Carnival Token Dispenser, 1880-1910
This wonderful machine would dispense 3 tokens with every pull of the lever. It was used at circuses and carnivals to exchange cash for tokens. ca. 1880-1910. Some parts missing.
Top with Archimedes Screw
Pull toy
Grapho-Scope
Shomescope
Thaumatrope
Stereoscopic viewer
Kinematograph, Oil lamp slide projector
Kinematicograph (1)
Kinematicograph (2)
Kinematicograph (3)
Kinematicograph (4)
Kinematicograph (5)
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