When this mail order catalog was shipped in 1907 audiences were seeing motion pictures, stereopticon lectures and talking machine concerts through traveling showmen events. It was published several years before nickelodeons and vaudeville shows were about to edge out the independent traveling cinema trade. The spread of movie theatres throughout the United States was still a few years into the future.

Each page of this Chicago Projecting Co. catalog No. 122 has been scanned to uncompressed 600 dpi TIFF files and gently retouched. This extremely rare showman's catalog is now available for the first time since 1907.

This deluxe reprint has over 280 original illustrations republished for the first time since before the nickelodeon era. Over 1,050 pre-Hollywood films and 1,000 stereopticon slides are fully indexed, more than 280 listings of equipment useful to the traveling exhibitor trade are listed.

Within this book you will find everything you need to know how to operate and profit in the booming optical exhibitor business.