Data sources for Lucerna
The content of the Lucerna database is drawn from too many sources to list individually, but some of the major ones are:
Some of the manufacturers’ and dealers’ catalogues used in compiling Lucerna
Bamforth's artistic life model lantern slides: supplementary list (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1912)
Bamforth's artistic life model lantern slides: supplementary list (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1914)
Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913)
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905)
Catalogue of photographic slides for the optical lantern (Southampton: G.M. Mason, 1920s)
A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910)
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913)
Season 1906-7: first supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1906)
Season 1907-8: second supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1907)
Season 1908-9: third supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1908)
Season 1909-10: fourth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1909)
Season 1910-11: fifth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1910)
Season 1911-12: sixth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1911)
Season 1912-13: seventh supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1912)
Season 1913-14: eighth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1913)
Season 1914-15: ninth supplement to the general catalogue of lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers (1914), 1914)
1903-4 price list: photographic apparatus and materials (London: George Houghton & Son, 1903)
Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889)
Catalogue of lantern slides: part I (London: Newton & Co., 1912)
Catalogue of lantern slides: part II (London: Newton & Co., 1913)
Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891)
Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1912)
Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894)
'Optimus' single lantern
Slide illustrating comic story
