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[29] 100 lantern slides depicting Christian missionary activity around the world, all of which have been digitised [30] and are available to view online. [31] University of Sheffield: The University Library, Special Collections Department Sheffield Beet Lantern Slide Collection. [32] Around 2,500 lantern slides on a wide range of subjects.
The magic lantern and lantern slides are still popular with collectors and can be found in many museums like, for example, in the Museum of Precinema in Padua where 60 magic lanterns and more than 10000 original slides are preserved.
The Smithsonian Institution holds the Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereophonic Collection that includes some 28,000 glass plates, including stereoscopic negatives, negative and positive non-stereoscopic plates used to produce lantern slides and paper prints, paper stereographs, sales catalogues and 4 stereoscopes.
Chromatrope, double rackwork animated slide. United Kingdom, 2nd half 19th century. Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin. A chromatrope is a type of magic lantern slide that produces dazzling, colorful geometrical patterns set in motion by rotating two painted glass discs in opposite directions, originally with a double pulley mechanism but later usually with a rackwork mechanism.
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The 1950s was a period of transition from black and white lantern slides, which heretofore had often been hand colored, to color positive film. Lantern slides were shot directly onto color film, and the 35mm slide (2"x2" with an image of 24mm x 36mm) gained in popularity. The heyday of the lantern slide lasted one hundred years, more or less ...
The Indian Picture Opera is a magic lantern slide show created by photographer Edward S. Curtis in the early 20th century. Curtis is best known for his work documenting Native American tribes through his 20-volume book series, The North American Indian, which featured around 2,400 photographs along with detailed ethnological and linguistic studies of the tribes of the American West.
Around 1900, the London Missionary Society produced a series of glass magic lantern slides, including this one, depicting the missionary efforts of David Livingstone.. The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.