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The Lucerna database currently contains records for:
- 12,661 slide sets comprising over 350,400 slides...
- ... of which 172,924 individual slides have been listed – including 50,510 with images
- 5,580 people connected with the magic lantern
- 1,744 organisations (companies, institutions and other groups) connected with the magic lantern
- 6,571 lantern-related events (shows, exhibitions, historical events etc.)
- 10,961 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
- 175 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
- private and public collections of magic lantern material
- 10,803 texts connected with the magic lantern
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Crompton, Henry and Herbert, Magic images (1990)

Slide showing steam trawler at sea

Slide illustrating comic story