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The Lucerna database currently contains records for:
- 11,618 slide sets comprising over 307,600 slides...
- ... of which 163,883 individual slides have been listed – including 47,264 with images
- 5,439 people connected with the magic lantern
- 1,729 organisations (companies, institutions and other groups) connected with the magic lantern
- 6,570 lantern-related events (shows, exhibitions, historical events etc.)
- 10,747 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
- 175 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
- private and public collections of magic lantern material
- 10,568 texts connected with the magic lantern
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Deac Rossell, Laterna magica / Magic lantern (2008)

Slide showing monsoon storm at sea

W.C. Hughes in 1897