Data sources for Lucerna
The content of the Lucerna database is drawn from too many sources to list individually, but some of the major ones are:
Some of the manufacturers’ and dealers’ catalogues used in compiling Lucerna
Bamforth & Co., Bamforth's artistic life model lantern slides: supplementary list (Holmfirth: 1914)
Bamforth & Co., Bamforth's artistic life model lantern slides: supplementary list (Holmfirth: 1912)
J.W. Butcher, Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: c.1913)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: 1905)
G.M. Mason, Catalogue of photographic slides for the optical lantern: [early 1920s] (Southampton: 1920s)
Bamforth & Co., A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: 1910)
Ivens & Co., Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: c.1913)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1906-7: first supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1906)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1907-8: second supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1907)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1908-9: third supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1908)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1909-10: fourth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1909)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1910-11: fifth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1910)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1911-12: sixth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1911)
Riley Brothers and William Byles & Sons, Season 1912-13: seventh supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1912)
Riley Brothers and Bradford Press, Season 1913-14: eighth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1913)
Riley Brothers (1914) and William Byles & Sons, Season 1914-15: ninth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: 1914)
George Houghton & Son, 1903-4 price list: photographic apparatus and materials (London: 1903)
J. Brandon Medland, Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: c.1889)
Newton & Co., Catalogue of lantern slides: part I (London: 1912)
Newton & Co., Catalogue of lantern slides: part II (London: 1913)
UK Band of Hope Union and Waller & Baines, Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: 1891)
J. Lizars, Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: 1909)
E.G. Wood and Merritt and Hatcher, Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: 1894)
Slide illustrating fairy tale
Horace Banks in 1898
