Public lantern lectures, that is a public lecture featuring image projection and organized for a variety of audiences, were once a staple of the so-called social winter season.This dataset lists the public lantern lectures organized in Haarlem, in the Netherlands, during season of 1925-1926. The data is structured using an event-oriented data model, featuring 134 records. Each record features the fields: Date Speaker Topic Organizer Venue

Further information and data visualization can be accessed at https://sagepus.blogspot.com/2023/03/harlem-and-the-lantern-season.html

This dataset was produced as part of the research program “Projecting Knowledge—The Magic Lantern as a Tool for Mediated Science Communication in the Netherlands, 1880–1940”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and with project number VC.GW17.079 / 6214.

More information about the project can be found at: https://projectingknowledge.sites.uu.nl/