Slide set: Brown and the bear (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

Brown determines to become a great hunter, so starts in search of the bear

Slide 2

Arranging his plans. Sudden termination of his reverie

Slide 3

Brown beats a rapid retreat, followed by the grizzly

Slide 4

Slide 5

Slide 6

Slide 7

Brown again attempts to escape, leaving his unmentionables in the mouth of his foe

Slide 8

He climbs the tree, followed by the bear

Slide 9

The tree breaks with their weight. Thrilling sensation

Slide 10

Brown falls on the bear, and makes a novel use of his pocket corkscrew

Slide 11

Fastening his foe to the tree, he enjoys the fragrant weed

Slide 12

Triumphant entry of Brown into his native city

Catalogue entries (6)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 33

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 62

1892

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus, etc.: season 1892-93 (London: Wrench & Son, 1892), 201

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 125

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 58

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 62

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), 282

“Brown out Bear Hunting, whilst arranging plans receives from a grizzly sudden notice to move, which (after waving his unmentionables in his foe's mouth) he does up a tree, and so on.”

Lucerna ID 3001904

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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Slide set: Brown and the bear (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)