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The Lucerna database currently contains records for:
- 9,875 slide sets comprising over 285,600 slides...
- ... of which 145,451 individual slides have been listed – including 39,148 with images
- 5,282 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.)
- 10,321 locations (cities and towns, villages, individual addresses)
- 175 items of lantern hardware and other artefacts
- private and public collections of magic lantern material
- 10,304 texts connected with the magic lantern
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