In the 19th century, magic lantern theaters sprung up everywhere. By the early 1900s, motion pictures had swept the country and magic lanterns disappeared. Mark Sullivan runs the Magic Lantern.

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 ...

(Proust, 1922) The magic lantern as a technology of entertainment and instruction, but also deception and terror, is frequently mentioned in literary and philosophical writings of the long nineteenth ...

A far cry from the shadowy ghosts and ghouls of the 17th century, the magic lantern had developed into ... In the 18th and 19th centuries, there were several styles of gout stools, designed ...

(Proust, 1922) The magic lantern as a technology of entertainment and instruction, but also deception and terror, is frequently mentioned in literary and philosophical writings of the long nineteenth ...

The magic lantern is an early type of projector ... The slides depict life in the late 19th and early 20th Century The images were produced by posing models, either volunteers or the ...