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The Lucerna database currently contains records for:

• 9,848 slide sets comprising over 285,100 slides...
  
  
• ... of which 143,519 individual slides have been listed – including 38,381 with images
  
  
• 5,257 people connected with the magic lantern
  
  
• 1,686 organisations (companies, institutions and other groups) connected with the magic lantern
  
  
• 6,564 lantern-related events (shows, exhibitions, historical events etc.)
  
  
• 10,284 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
  
  
• 174 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
  
  
• private and public collections of magic lantern material
  
  
• 10,260 texts connected with the magic lantern
  
  
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DISCLAIMER: A small proportion of records in the Lucerna database contain words or images that may be racially or otherwise offensive. They are included here as historical reproductions from a different period with different standards, and do not indicate any support or approval of such attitudes by Lucerna or any associated institutions.