Anton Orlov held one of the glass plates to the light. The hand-colored image seemed to glow. Two soldiers in long brown coats, rifles over their shoulders, stood with their backs to the camera. A ...

Image caption, National Science and Media Museum has acquired more than 2,600 magic lantern slides from the 19th and 20th Century Article Information A collection of vivid and colourful images showing ...

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

People have celebrated Halloween in any number of ways throughout time, from setting bonfires to trick-or- treating, carving pumpkins and wearing costumes. In the 19th century, one favorite way to ...

The past is very much present at the Amish Experience, located on Old Philadelphia Pike in Bird-in-Hand. Hectic modern life is put on hold there. “We do want to take you back to the way things were,” ...

More than 2,600 photos provide a time machine to the Victorian era. The pictures show Bradford, West Yorkshire in the late 1800s and early 1900s, depicting the city post-industrialisation, when it ...

We are wondering about this box of about 50 glass slides with pictures from all over the United States. Everything from Niagara Falls to old railroad cars. They were distributed by the Keystone View ...

A collection of vivid and colourful images showing life in Victorian Bradford has been acquired by a museum. The National Science and Media Museum (NSMM) is archiving more than 2,600 magic lantern ...