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Lantern slides --- Art. --- Art --- Catalogs

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Lantern projection --- Lantern slides --- Lantern projection. --- Lantern slides. --- History. --- History --- Beale, Joseph Boggs, --- United States.

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An early visual mass medium, the magic lantern was omnipresent in most Western societies between 1880 and 1930. The Christian Church, especially the Catholics, spiritual associations such as the Freemasons, political interest groups, and teaching institutions all made use of lectures enriched by projected images to disseminate information, convictions, and doctrines. Moreover, the lantern often featured as a concealed aid in stage spectacles. Nineteen authors analyse the effects of "the beam of light in the dark" in the context of religion, faith, and belief. Attention is paid to the wide spectrum of locations where projections took place, as well as to the lantern's impressive versatility. The lavishly illustrated chapters collected in this volume range from analyses of religious propaganda to fundraising lectures for missionary work in China, from the fight against alcoholism to the secularisation of society, and from the lantern's application in spiritualist sessions to its use in science and teaching.

Magic lantern shows --- Lantern projection --- Lantern slides --- Faith (Christianity) --- Spiritualism --- History. --- History --- Church history.

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Field notes --- Ichthyology --- Lantern slides --- Navy Surveying Expedition to the Phoenix and Samoa --- Kiribati --- Samoa

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Slides for the magic or optical lantern were a major tool for knowledge transfer in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schools, universities, the church and many public and private institutions all over the world relied on the lantern for illustrated lectures and demonstrations. This volume brings together scholarly research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the art of magic lantern research today. In addition, it contains a lab section with contributions by archivists and curators and performers reflecting on ways to preserve, present and re-use this immensely rich cultural heritage today.

Lantern slides --- History --- Educational aspects. --- Conservation and restoration. --- Photography in education --- Slides (Photography) --- History. --- Photography in education - History. --- Slides (Photography) - History --- Photography in education.