Slide set: Played out: a gambling story (story: Chatham Pexton, 37 slides, 1893)

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Slide 1

Auntie, where can Charlie be?

Slide 2

Mrs Hartley kneeling by her side

Slide 3

Lying upon the bank

Slide 4

You have found my husband

Slide 5

A terrible faintness seized her

Slide 6

The doctors knew a crisis had come

Slide 7

A faint smile touched her lips

Slide 8

Gerald Forrester raised himself

Slide 9

You have wonderfully improved

Slide 10

Go ahead, said Gerald

Slide 11

My winnings in these marked envelopes

Slide 12

Gerald conscious of the approach

Slide 13

Pointing with his finger

Slide 14

Mrs Hartley brought Constance

Slide 15

They each understood the other

Slide 16

There, that's done, thank goodness

Slide 17

He held in his hand some small dice

Slide 18

They commenced at a penny a throw

Slide 19

He dealt Jerry two terrific blows

Slide 20

Jerry's back is bared

Slide 21

Gerald sitting in his cabin

Slide 22

Jerry turned his low brutal face

Slide 23

Jerry repudiated the offered pardon

Slide 24

The place is packed

Slide 25

Quick as lightning

Slide 26

Returning from a day's toil

Slide 27

Tonight an unwonted sadness

Slide 28

Slowly the sun sank

Slide 29

A voice called, Is that you Mac?

Slide 30

He's got a hole in his chest

Slide 31

But it's all up with Jerry

Slide 32

So Mac was left alone

Slide 33

Suddenly, Jerry slowly rose

Slide 34

The sun was setting

Slide 35

I am going to find my wife

Slide 36

Mrs Hartley meets an old friend

Slide 37

no image available

The optical magic lantern journal: volume 5 number 65 (October 1894), xiii

Catalogue entries (5)

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 122

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 6

1912

Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 371

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 259

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 181

“A story, by a popular writer, which illustrates the evils of gambling among rich and poor.”

Other reference

31 August 1893

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/414/430-466

Lucerna ID 3000913

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 16 March 2024

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