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Slide set: A voyage round the world (lecture: Newton & Co., 100 slides, in/before 1888)

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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), 261

“Making the start at Portsmouth, with effect slides of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the voyage proceeds via Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algiers (4), Malta, Suez Canal, Egypt (9), to India (10). Then the sight-seer has a rest, and is treated to Crossing the Line, Sunset at Sea, &c. Resuming, Java (5) and China (12) are visited, and another rest ' for refreshments' in a few effect slides of Ship on Fire, etc. After that San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, Salt Lake City, New York, Niagara and Montreal, and on the way home to Queenstown two whaling pictures. The whole concluding with H.M. the Queen.”

Lucerna ID  3000307

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 April 2021

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