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Slide set: The robbers (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1887)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
Two robbers asking for charity at an old gentleman's house
Slide 2
He regales them in a sumptuous manner
Slide 3
He fills their bags with the broken victuals
Slide 4
They return at night to break into the house
Slide 5
They commence the attack
Slide 6
The old man is quietly reading, and hears the noise
Slide 7
He drops from the window to surprise them
Slide 8
They have succeeded in getting their bodies partly through
Slide 9
The old man comes very quietly round the corner
Slide 10
He nails them securely to the wall
Slide 11
He belabours them with his whip
Slide 12


no image available
1901
Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 57
1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 23
1906
1909
Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 11
c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 61
Other references (2)
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), 304

“The robbers ask for charity from an old gentleman. He treats them sumptuously. At night they break into his house, but the old man catches them neatly, nails them to the wall, belabours them, and sends them home wiser men.”

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), 306

“Showing a ludicrous effect of Indians trying to rob a Settler's Shanty in the Backwoods.”

Lucerna ID  3000466

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 19 March 2024

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