Public lantern lectures in the Netherlands 1880-1940 ...

This dataset was compiled from newspaper advertisements from the digitized newspaper platforms Delpher.nl and Archieven.nl and published between 1880 and 1926. A smaller dataset was compiled from a sample of advertisements published between 1926 and 1940 for comparison purposes. This dataset was produced in the context of the research project "Projecting Knowledge: The Magic Lantern as a Tool for Mediated Science Communication in the Netherlands, 1880-1940" funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). “Projecting Knowledge” studies the use of the magic lantern in science communication in the Ne... Mehr ...