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Text: Robert Craven, ‘The niggers and the ostrich’ in Short lantern readings 17 (1893)

Publication details

Type of text

poem

Contained in

Short lantern readings: no. 17 (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1893), pp. 15-17

Contributor

author: CRAVEN, Robert, C.M. (1833-1897)

Main language(s)

English

Associated slide set

reading for The niggers and the ostrich (comic: Bamforth & Co., 8 slides, 1893)

Collections

copy in MLS Slide Readings Library, item 90246

Lucerna ID 4002216

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 24 March 2013

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Text: Robert Craven, ‘The niggers and the ostrich’ in Short lantern readings 17 (1893)