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Slide set: Underground life: or mines and miners (lecture: York & Son, 90 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set
c.1913
Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 36
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), 268

“Ninety of the slides are in connection with Messrs. Chapman and Hall's 11 Underground Life,' illustrating the history, modes, and difficulties of procuring coal and other minerals. Inter alia we have Fossils in Coal (14), Explosions, Engineer's Critical Situation, Prisoners Condemned to the Mines in Mexico. The latter 40 slides show Wigan Colliery Girl at Work, the Same Girl on Sunday, Section of Pit on Fire, Boring the Channel Tunnel, Prince of Wales descending Botallack Mine, Gold-digging in Australasia, etc.”

Lucerna ID  3000699

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 June 2012

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