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Slide set: Sambo's five senses (comic: York & Son, 5 slides, in/before 1887)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
Seeing
Slide 2
Smelling
Slide 3
Tasting
Slide 4
Hearing
Slide 5
Feeling
1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 23
c.1913
Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 367
c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 110
Other reference
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), 307

“Comic pictures of a nigger's five senses.”

Lucerna ID  3000468

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 3 July 2023

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