Organisation: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society, special interest society

Organisation history

Historical details of this organisation

Full name

Sheffield and District Optical Lantern Society

Short name

Sheffield Optical Lantern Society

Known activities

Known date(s)

Activity

1890s

special interest society -- lanterns and slides

1890s

special interest society -- photography

Date of foundation

c.1890

Main period and nation of relevant activity

1890s, England

People linked to this organisation

CLOWES, Joseph (1838-c.1925) – member, 1890-1897

FRITH, J.T. (1860-1941) – officer, 1891

MANTON, Dr John, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (1864-1919) – officer, 1892-1898

MOTTERSHAW, Frank (1850-1932) – member, 1895-1896

SOUTHERN, John (1875-1954) – member, dates unknown

STANIFORTH, H. (fl. 1890s) – officer, 1890-1891

WOOLHOUSE, J.W. (1865-1945) – member, 1890

Events linked to this organisation

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting (society meeting, 16 July 1890)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 22 September 1890)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 19 November 1890)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 24 September 1891)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 2 November 1891)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting: annual conversazione (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 13 March 1896)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society annual outing (society meeting, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, 20 June 1896)

organiser: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society annual outing (society meeting, Stainborough, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 24 July 1897)

organiser: [Sheffield Optical Lantern Society meeting: annual dinner and lantern exhibition] (society meeting, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England, 2 December 1897)

References

Thomas Bedding (editor), The British Journal photographic almanac and photographer's daily companion 1898 (London: Greenwood & Co., 1897), p. 602
– list of officers

Joseph Clowes, Haddon Hall: a souvenir of the annual outing of the Sheffield Optical Lantern Society (Sheffield: J. Clowes, 1896)

‘Notes’ in OMLJ 7.82 (March 1896)
– annual conversazione

‘Notes’ in OMLJ 9.104 (January 1898)
– annual dinner

‘Society meetings’ in OMLJ 2.15 (August 1890)
– plans for excursions and competition

‘Society meetings’ in OMLJ 2.17 (October 1890)
– account of September 1890 meeting

‘Society meetings’ in OMLJ 2.20 (January 1891)
– account of November 1890 meeting

‘Society meetings’ in OMLJ 2.29 (October 1891)
– account of September 1891 meeting

‘Society meetings’ in OMLJ 3.32 (January 1892)
– account of November 1891 meeting

Joseph Clowes, Wentworth Castle (Stainborough Hall) (Sheffield: J. Clowes, 1897)

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Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 7 September 2014

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