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Slide set: The village blacksmith (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1891)

Individual slides contained in this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1**
Title: 'The Village Blacksmith,' with smithy, &c, by moonlight
Slide 2**
Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands
Slide 3**
Week in, week out, from morn till night you can hear his bellows blow
Slide 3a
Like a sexton ringing the village bell when the evening sun is low
Slide 4**
And children coming home from school look in at the open door
Slide 5**
He goes on Sunday to the church and sits among his boys
Slide 6**
He hears his daughter's voice, singing in the village choir
Slide 7**
And it makes his heart rejoice
Slide 7a**
Effect. It sounds to him like her mother's voice singing in Paradise!
Slide 8**
Effect. He needs must think of her once more how in the grave she lies
Slide 9**
Toiling -- rejoining -- sorrowing onward through life he goes
Slide 10
Something attempted, something done has earned a night's repose
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Slide title
Format
Image type
Production
Background
1
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Drawing / painting / print
Photography
N/A
image content: Astronomy – moon | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy
2
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy
3
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy
3a
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Drawing / painting / print
Photography
N/A
image content: Natural feature – river | Vegetation – tree | Building or structure (exterior) – church (exterior) | Natural feature – sunset
4
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy
5
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
6
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: BAMFORTH, James  (1842-1911)
7
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha  (1843-1894)
7a
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha  (1843-1894)
8
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha  (1843-1894)
9
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy
10
Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square
Life model
Photography
Studio set
Lucerna ID  3001966

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 20 March 2024

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