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Slide set: Tripoli (lecture: G.W. Wilson, 40 slides, 1894)

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September 1894

The optical magic lantern journal: volume 5 number 64 (September 1894), xi

“New sets for season 1894-5.”

Catalogue entries (3)

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 138

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 320

1912

Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 167

“Many picturesque groups of Arabs, Kurds, and Negroes with their camels and donkeys, instantaneous photographs in the streets and market places, with views of mosques and native houses, all combine to render this series of slides of the oasis of Tripoli a vivid presentment of Eastern life and surroundings.”

Lucerna ID 3001013

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 August 2021

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Slide set: Tripoli (lecture: G.W. Wilson, 40 slides, 1894)