Adventures of Mr Snapshot (recitation: York & Son, 13 slides, 1893)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, He takes -- a Camera as a Wedding Present
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, He takes -- a Young Lady
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, He takes -- an Old Lady
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, He takes -- Angelina -- and takes -- the Clergyman
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, He takes -- a Portrait -- Train takes its Departure
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, He takes -- a Nap
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, He takes -- an Outside View
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, He takes -- an Inside View
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, He takes -- a Ride -- and the Driver takes his hook!
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, He takes -- on a Boxing Kangaroo
creator of source image(s): Slide 11, He takes -- a (Russian) Native
creator of source image(s): Slide 12, He takes -- Himself and his Negatives -- Home
creator of source image(s): Slide 13, He takes -- to Developing
Excelsior! (song: Riley Brothers, 10 slides, 1893)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, Introductory
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, A youth who bore 'mid snow and ice
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, But like a silver clarion, rung
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, In happy homes he saw the light
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, 'Try not the pass,' the old man said
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, 'Oh! stay,' the maiden cried --
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, Beware the pine tree's withered branch
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, At break of day, as heavenward
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, Half-buried in the snow --
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, Like a falling star
The fugitive slaves (lecture: W.C. Hughes, 15 slides, in/before 1888)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, [Slide title unknown]
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Greedy Sammy (story: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1894)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, The spoon had dropped from Sammy's hand before it reached his chin
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, And presently a stick she clasped, and made poor Sammy dance
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, A luscious pear of monstrous size it proved, as you may see
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, Which, when the fruit was finished, took Sammy by the nose
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, Already you may faintly trace the germs of head and tail
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, And Sammy saw his awful doom -- for he became a pig
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, Within the pen you see confined, the whole too-conscious brute
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, She to the forest soon withdrew, to get a magic wand
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, And now the fatal moment's come, and hideous noises fill
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, The cottage and its inmates too were burnt and blown away
creator of source image(s): Slide 11, For Nelly quick, as I can tell, at once brought Sam relief
creator of source image(s): Slide 12, Well, that's the tale that Sammy told his mother when they met
The Hoosier schoolmaster (story: Riley Brothers, 50 slides, 1896)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, Ralph interviews old Jack Means
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, Hunting the 'coon
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, Ralph tries to make friends with Bud
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, Ralph finds the puppy in his desk
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, Mirandy Means
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, 'Git a plenty while you're a gittin'
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, Shocky warns the schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, Hank Banta falls into his own pit
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, Squire Hawkins
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, Jeems Phillips
creator of source image(s): Slide 11, Hannah 'spells down' the Schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 12, Ralph sees Hannah home
creator of source image(s): Slide 13, 'You're a purty girl, an't you?'
creator of source image(s): Slide 14, Pete Jones welcomes the Schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 15, Ralph watching the horsemen
creator of source image(s): Slide 16, Ralph in Pete Jones's stable
creator of source image(s): Slide 17, Ralph lay still in the darkness
creator of source image(s): Slide 18, Shocky and the Schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 19, Dr Small visits Granny Sanders
creator of source image(s): Slide 20, Martha Hawkins talks to the master
creator of source image(s): Slide 21, 'We're all selfish accordin' to my tell'
creator of source image(s): Slide 22, Ralph takes Miss Hawkins to Church
creator of source image(s): Slide 23, The 'Hardshell Preacher'
creator of source image(s): Slide 24, Ralph tries fire and brimstone
creator of source image(s): Slide 25, Shocky thinks God has forgotten the master
creator of source image(s): Slide 26, 'The Church of the Best Licks'
creator of source image(s): Slide 27, Shocky brings exciting news
creator of source image(s): Slide 28, Bud fights Pete Jones
creator of source image(s): Slide 29, Mr Pearson keeps guard
creator of source image(s): Slide 30, Bud and Ralph at Shocky's Bedside
creator of source image(s): Slide 31, Dr Small acts the spy
creator of source image(s): Slide 32, God remembers Shocky
creator of source image(s): Slide 33, Nancy Sawyer welcomes Shocky
creator of source image(s): Slide 34, Ralph dines with his aunt
creator of source image(s): Slide 35, 'My head is tater on one side'
creator of source image(s): Slide 36, Ralph finds Shocky's mother
creator of source image(s): Slide 37, Ralph gets a letter
creator of source image(s): Slide 38, Bud meets with a disappointment
creator of source image(s): Slide 39, Ralph gets a letter
creator of source image(s): Slide 40, Hannah warns the Schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 41, Ralph gives himself up
creator of source image(s): Slide 42, Mrs Means gives evidence
creator of source image(s): Slide 43, Ralph asserts his innocence
creator of source image(s): Slide 44, Brother Sodom frightens Walter
creator of source image(s): Slide 45, Walter faints in court
creator of source image(s): Slide 46, Walter catches sight of Brother Sodom
creator of source image(s): Slide 47, The tables turned
creator of source image(s): Slide 48, 'Tater-head' gives evidence
creator of source image(s): Slide 49, Hannah accepts the Schoolmaster
creator of source image(s): Slide 50, 'Bud and Martha' Good-bye
How Jimmy tended the baby (comic: Bamforth & Co., 10 slides, 1892)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, Baby hasn't half the sense of my dog, and can't even chase a cat
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, 'Hold it up straight, you good-for-nothing, little wretch!'
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, Mother and Sue went out to make calls, and told me to stay at home and take care of baby
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, I went to see if there was any pie in the pantry. If I was a woman, I wouldn't be so dreadfully suspicious as to keep everything locked up
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, Baby was awake, and was howling like he was full of pins
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, I gave him the first thing that came handy to keep him quiet; it happened to be a bottle of black varnish
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, The baby stopped crying and I sat down to read a paper
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, The next time I looked at him, about half of his face was jet black
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, So I hurried up and begun to black the baby all over. I think an all-black baby much more stylish than an all-white on
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, I had just time to get baby dressed again when mother and Sue came in. I wouldn't lower myself to repeat their unkind language
Tim's first speech (story: manufacturer unknown, 6 slides, in/before 1893)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, [Slide title unknown]
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creator of source image(s): Slide 3, And I buttons the waistband round their necks
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, Daddy, we're buttoned up
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, On I goes to his Riverence
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, A good leg of mutton and trimmings on the table
Tuttlebury's latch key (comic: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1897)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, A latch key is a most convenient article when it happens to be on the same side of the latch as you are
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, The Tuttlebury mansion was wrapped several inches thick in sleep as Tuttlebury strolled up the garden walk
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, Tuttlebury sat down on the step to think
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, He found it with his shin, just at the point where nature has put the least padding
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, He got his boot toe between the bars of the area grate
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, 'Blowed if they haven't locked the back gate too'
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, The dog gave vent to one suppressed growl, and the left leg of Tuttlebury's trousers
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, Springing over the gate into the arms of a policeman
creator of source image(s): Slide 9, Beg pardon, sir, you've got to the wrong gate
creator of source image(s): Slide 10, Tuttlebury clambered up on to the policeman's shoulder
creator of source image(s): Slide 11, Leaving Tuttlebury clinging to the fall-pipe
creator of source image(s): Slide 12, Tuttlebury sat on the sill to take off his boots
creator of source image(s): Slide 13, Mrs Tuttlebury heard him, and came to let him out
creator of source image(s): Slide 14, 'We've been sleeping with the front door unlatched'
Watch him, Pincher (story: Bamforth & Co., 8 slides, 1895)
creator of source image(s): Slide 1, Introduction, with title
creator of source image(s): Slide 2, 'Ho! ho! he bellowed out at last, I've got you now, my lad, quite fast
creator of source image(s): Slide 3, 'Now watch him, Pincher, keep him there, and I will to the house repair'
creator of source image(s): Slide 4, The boy, to make the dog afraid, began an apple cannonade
creator of source image(s): Slide 5, The farmer reached the guarded tree, with face brimful of spiteful glee
creator of source image(s): Slide 6, And up and down the limb he worked, and now and then the rope he jerked
creator of source image(s): Slide 7, The farmer's most substantial weight seemed to have sealed the bulldog's fate
creator of source image(s): Slide 8, While there the farmer helpless lies, and brings his dame up with his cries
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