The four 2013 issues of The Magic Lantern Gazette are now posted online in full color at:
These issues contain a number of original research articles:
Terry Borton. 2013. 238 eminent American "magic-lantern" showmen: the Chautauqua lecturers. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (1):3-35 (with an appendix listing personal details and lecture topics for all 238 lecturers).
Jeremy Brooker. 2013. Signor Topsey-Turveys's wonderful magic lantern: subversion, inversion and transformation in the land of dreams. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (2):3-10.
Esther Morgan-Ellis. 2013. Song slides in the American picture palace. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (2):11-18, 23.
Francisco Javier Frutos. 2013. From luminous pictures to transparent photographs: the evolution of techniques for making magic lantern slides. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (3):3-10.
Jeffrey D. Gardner. 2013. An illustrated lecture on "Sand: its Origin and Uses": Geology through the eyes of John P. Marshall, former Tufts College professor. The Magic Lantern Gazette 325 (3):12-16, 23.
David Evans. 2013. The organ solo in Britain. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (3):16-17.
Kentwood D. Wells. 2013. George Reed Cromwell (1835-1899): America's most famous forgotten magic lantern showman. The Magic Lantern Gazette 25 (4):3-45, 47 (with an appendix giving the itinerary of Prof. Cromwell's lectures from 1868 through 1894.
Also included in the Summer and Fall issues are The Research Page, giving summaries of five new Ph.D. dissertations related to magic lanterns and numerous academic articles in various fields related to the lantern.
Finally, there are short reviews of several books, including Magic Lantern Empire, Antique Photographica, Emerald Illusions, and Diableries.
For a complete bibliography of research articles on magic lanterns and related topics, visit the Zotero Magic Lanternn Research Group at: www.zotero.org/groups/magic_lantern_research_group
To join the Magic Lantern Society of the United States and Canada, with a print subscription to The Magic Lantern Gazette, visit www.magiclanternsociety.org
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