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The Lucerna database currently contains records for:
- 12,221 slide sets comprising over 333,200 slides...
- ... of which 170,884 individual slides have been listed – including 50,220 with images
- 5,568 people connected with the magic lantern
- 1,742 organisations (companies, institutions and other groups) connected with the magic lantern
- 6,571 lantern-related events (shows, exhibitions, historical events etc.)
- 10,947 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
- 175 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
- private and public collections of magic lantern material
- 10,775 texts connected with the magic lantern
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Humphries, Victorian Britain through the magic lantern (1989)

Lantern lecture book: India (1910)

Slide illustrating comic story