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or even ruined by an inartistic mat. Bind the slide and cover together 
with a lantern-slide binding strip. Paste on the label, or, if you 
prefer, paste the label on the mat before binding, so as to have it 
protected by the cover. Lay the slide down so that the positions 
are just as they were in the original, and then paste the “thumb 
mark” in the lower left-hand corner. 
Some efficient and easily available help in making lantern slides 
and in general photography will be found in some booklets published 
by the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York: “Lantern 
Slides; How to Make and Color Them”; “Elementary Photographic 
Chemistry;” “Color Plates and Filters”; “About Lenses.” 
