Ross & Co., serial 4811. Forty-eight plates in the rack, forty-seven of them worth loading.
A lantern of this period has no switch, and neither does this page. Tell it what to do.
lost? the repository has a wiki. nobody ever opens a wiki.
so do it.
drag it round. it is 1897. nothing here is in a hurry.
six plates ringed in pencil. one at a time — the rack only holds one.