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- 13,297 slide sets comprising over 364,000 slides...
- ... of which 185,912 individual slides have been listed – including 53,320 with images
- 5,630 people connected with the magic lantern
- 1,757 organisations (companies, institutions and other groups) connected with the magic lantern
- 6,571 lantern-related events (shows, exhibitions, historical events etc.)
- 11,066 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
- 175 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
- private and public collections of magic lantern material
- 10,905 texts connected with the magic lantern
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'Combination Scientist' lantern
Newton's Electric Scientific lantern
Lantern reading: Mysore (1875)