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'Views of Cabul', 1878 (c)

Hand coloured lantern slide.

Lantern slide shows were a popular entertainment in the 18th and 19th centuries and allowed ordinary people to catch up with faraway events like the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880). Many manufacturers of slides and the magic lanterns that showed them used ingenious mechanisms to create movement or animation in the projected image.

One of 37 hand coloured lantern slides.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1972-03-1-29

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1972-03-1-29