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Slide set: The elephant's revenge (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1887)

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He took hold of his drawers and shook him

Slide 11

The elephant then threw him into a cactus bush

Slide 12

The elephant leaves him covered with prickles

Catalogue entries (8)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), B 2

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 49

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 62

1892

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus, etc.: season 1892-93 (London: Wrench & Son, 1892), 201

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 124

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 13

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 366

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 62

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 286

“A native has a shot at an elephant. The animal, giving chase, catches him by the ear, shakes him, throws him into a lake near a crocodile, gives him a shower bath, shakes him by his drawers, and finally throws him away on the prickles of a cactus bush.”

Lucerna ID 3000478

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 25 December 2023

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Slide set: The elephant's revenge (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1887)