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Organisation: Sheffield Optical Lantern Society, special interest society

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
‘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)
Lucerna ID 1001074

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 7 September 2014

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