Public lantern lectures in the Netherlands 1880-1940: A dataset based on historical newspaper advertisements

The media history research project Projecting Knowledge aimed to investigate the use of the magic lantern in science communication and knowledge transmission in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1940. For my research within this project, I conducted a survey of digitised historical newspapers based on the expression met lichtbeelden, the phrase that was most used to describe the use of projection in public lectures. My goal was to understand the reach and prevalence of this phenomenon. This paper discusses the dataset I created from this survey. Using newspaper advertisements as a primary sourc... Mehr ...