The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from "The Unlucky Present," a Scottish tale about a blacksmith rescuing a minister ...

The magic lantern or Laterna Magica is an early type of image projector employing pictures on sheets of glass ... several sets of late nineteenth century magic lantern slides. A slide show of each ...

Physicist Karl Lark-Horovitz last week showed big magic lantern pictures of atoms in action. In oldtime magic lanterns, a strong light shone through an illustrated glass slide. A lens projected an ...

A collection of magic lantern projector slides showing Cornish shipwrecks has sold for £15,000. Frank Strike's collection of more than 300 well-preserved pieces had been expected to sell for ...

Context: The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from ...