This is an antique zoetrope at San Francisco's wonderful Musee Mecanique. If you look at the central mirrored section, you will see two images of a girl jumping rope (reflecting the series of images around the inside of the outer drum). The zoetrope was invented in the middle of the 19th century but simpler versions of it were created almost 2,000 years ago in China.
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