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Slide set: Corporal Smart (story: J. Green & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
He meets the Donkey near the cross roads
Slide 2
Donkey, Smart and Thistle
Slide 3
The Donkey stands on his hind legs
Slide 4
A regular kicker
Slide 5


no image available
Slide 6
Still in peril
Slide 7
Astonishing attitudes
Slide 8


no image available
Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 59

“No Reading.”

1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 131

“A very humorous set, showing how the donkey which the Darkie Corporal mounted played him some very nasty tricks. It elevated him in the air, and in various ways gave him a rise in the world. He does not now ride donkeys.”

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), 285

“Illustrations of the Ups and Downs of the Corporal on a Donkey.”

Lucerna ID  3000982

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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