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Santa Claus before Coca-Cola: magic lantern slides (1897, Theobald & co.)

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The Father of the Animated Cartoon: Émile Cohl

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The Ten Commandments (unfortunately less one), a set of magic lantern slides illustrated by Joseph Boggs Beale (1896)

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Buster Brown’s advertisings (magic lantern slides)

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The Queen of Hearts (magic lantern slides)

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Our Life-Boat Men: a British set of magic lantern slides

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A British set of Magic Lantern Slides

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William Morgan published a series of 'Morgan's Dioramic View' during the nineteenth century. These novelty prints consisted of a picture pasted onto a single window mount, with another print adhered to the verso. When held up to the light the first picture would fade, revealing the second print.

Here is Westminster Abbey, entirely deserted, with the empty throne at the centre. When held up to the light, the empty Abbey is transformed to reveal the scene of Queen Victoria's coronation, with the Archbishop placing the crown upon her head.

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In the 1830s William Spooner produced a special kind of engravings called 'Protean Views'. In these prints the picture was transformed by backligthing.

This is 'Destruction of a Swiss Village by an Avalanche'. The image size is 13 x 18 cm

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