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Slide set: The new hat (story: York & Son, 9 slides, in/before 1888)

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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), 298

“Very proud of his new hat, a man forgets to take the precaution of carrying an umbrella , rain coming on, he rushes for shelter to a tree, which is struck by lightning, and the hat takes quite another snaps. With humble pride he learns the necessity of precaution.”

Lucerna ID  3001896

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 23 December 2011

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