Magic Lantern Slide: Hymn - Softly the Night is Sleeping
This slide contains the music and words for the Christian hymn ‘Softly the Night is Sleeping’, which tells part of the Christmas story. It is part of a private collection of magic lantern slides donated to the museum in 1981, many of which contain Christian messages or images.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 106/1981/2/27
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Hymn - Softly the Night is Sleeping
- Simple Name
- slide
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)