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Slide set: Mother's last words (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, 1885)

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Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
A worn-out woman, ghastly pale
Slide 2**
'Here, lads,' he said, 'divide this bread'
Slide 3**
And soundly slept those little boys
Slide 4**
The minister said, 'Dust to dust'
Slide 5**
And swept a pathway broad and neat
Slide 6**
Do you go to Sunday School?
Slide 7**
I know a dodge worth two of that
Slide 8**
He loitered round a pastrycook's
Slide 9**
And quick as thought he snatched them up
Slide 10**
He strained his ears to catch the sound
Slide 11**
They took the clothes and nice mince pies
Slide 12**
The Lady at the Sunday School would come and read to Chris
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
Catalogue entries (11)
1891
Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 36
1891
Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 124
1894
Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 116
1899
Catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides (London: Newton & Co., 1899), 440
1901
Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 41

“By Mrs Sewell. Illustrated by Life Models.”

1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 17
1909
Catalogue of science lanterns, optical lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides (London: Newton & Co., 1909), 372
1909
Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 424
1912
Catalogue of lantern slides: part I (London: Newton & Co., 1912), 181
1912
Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 389
c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 124
Other references (2)
5 October 1885
[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/374/35-41
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), 296

“Illustrations to Mrs. Sewell's ballad of two boys left to fight their way as crossing-sweepers. Their temptations to be dishonest are finally overcome, though with the battle against cold and hunger one succumbs.”

Lucerna ID  3000434

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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