THEMES AND SETS
	Themes Magic lantern slide sets
	Themes Magic lantern slides sorted by theme.
	The Bible Beautiful lantern slides depicting Scripture texts in three parts: The Old Testament, the New Testament and the parable of the prodigal son.
	Punch and Judy Punch and Judy are the hero and heroine of a comical puppet show. A lot of lantern slides depict their humorous adventures.
	On your bike! Lantern slides showing the ups and downs of cycling.
	Ladies and gentlemen! A visual visit to Circus 'Luikerwalo'. In come the clowns........
	Bad habits In addition to its role as popular entertainment, the magic lantern was also being put to educational purposes. Religious and idealistic organisations like the Salvation Army and the Temperance movement used the effectiveness of the magic lantern as a powerful weapon against the evils of drink and other 'bad habits'.
	Once upon a time...... .......there lived in Germany two brothers who gave the world a lot of stories. There names are Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, but usually we simply call them the Brothers Grimm. Special: Little Red Riding Hood
	Funny Faces An amusing gallery of entertaining, spitting, touching, shocking, beautiful, frightening, flashy, but always telling portraits.
	The Boy Scouts Nostalgic magic lantern slides about the Boy Scout movement, founded in Great Britain in 1908 by Robert Baden-Powell. Complete with original readings.
	Merry Christmas ! Vrolijk Kerstfeest, Joyeux Noël, Fröhliche Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad. Season's Greetings for the friends of the magic lantern.
	A Carefree Childhood Lantern slides depicting children.............. and.... Children's games Slides depicting the playing child, outside and at home.
	Work for a living What did our ancestors do for a living? A choice of magic lantern slides depicting the livelihood of our grand- and great-grandparents.
	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Probably no other book, apart from the Bible, was published in so many versions of magic lantern slides as Daniel Defoe's famous novel Robinson Crusoe (1719).
	Animal Alphabet depicted on magic lantern slides. Not yet completed, but too nice to hold back any longer.
	There's Music in the Air. A selection of magic lantern slides on music, musicians and their musical instruments.
	Living like Cat and Dog. A collection of magic lantern slides depicting two animal species that always live like cat and dog: the cats and dogs. Our pets and sometimes our best friends.
	On the wild billows..... ships, boats, a raft..... everything that floats on the water (but sometimes sinks).
	Damon and Pythias The old Greek legend of Damon and Pythias symbolizes trust and loyalty in a true friendship.
	Masonic Slides. During the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, every local post of any fraternal lodge like the Masons, owned a magic lantern and a collection of glass magic-lantern slides.
	Magic lantern slide sets
	The Tiger and the Tub "Mr Long & Mr Short go for a walk.....", a well known opening sentence from a incredible story, told on several sets of magic lantern slides.
	The Water-babies Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom..... A wonderful set of twenty four slides from Charles Kingsley's famous children's story 'The Water-babies'.
	The Bottle The English caricaturist George Cruikshank published a series of eight plates 'The Bottle' (1847) about the danger of alcoholism. After the example of his etches some imposing sets of magic lantern slides appeared.
	How Jane Conquest rang the Bell This example of a set of Life Model Slides tells the story of a woman who is placed in a terrible dilemma: to stay at home with her little child that is dangerously ill, or to leave her house and try to save the crew of a ship in flames. The Lord's prayer A very special set of magic lantern slides illustrating the words of the best-known prayer in Christianity.
	Mickey Mouse in 'The Delivery Boy' The British Ensign ltd produced a magic lantern and slides, based on the early Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies.
	Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight. A series of magic lantern slides based on a poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe about Bessie, a young woman whose lover is captured by the Puritans at the time of the English Civil War.
	Saint George and the Dragon A set of twelve 3.25" slides depicting the legend of the patron saint of England and patron of the Scouting Movement.
	De Ontdekking van Amerika (The discovery of America) decalcomania.
	A set of twelve oblong slides from G.B.N. Bavaria Decalcomania.
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