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Slide set: The heathen Chinee (story: York & Son, 9 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
The introduction
Slide 2
That heathen Chinee
Slide 3
Bill Nye
Slide 4
Commencing the game
Slide 5
Ah Sin astonishes the Pair
Slide 6
The rupture
Slide 7


no image available
Slide 8
The final scene
Slide 9
Concluding remarks
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), 288

“The tale by Bret Harte, in which we see 'that Heathen Chinee,' Bill Nye, 'Ah Sin astonishing the pair,' etc., etc.”

Lucerna ID  3001929

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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