Slide set: Scrub, the workhouse boy (story: York & Son, 11 slides, in/before 1888)

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Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 23

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 68

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 473

“By permission of the Authoress.”

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 68

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), 305

“Alfred Pamperfield becomes apprenticed, goes to the theatre, and enjoys his glass, and nearly gets burned to death. Scrub, in the kitchen, declines beer, resists temptations, is promoted to serve behind the counter, and finally becomes a Sunday-school teacher.”

Lucerna ID 3002686

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 September 2021

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Slide set: Scrub, the workhouse boy (story: York & Son, 11 slides, in/before 1888)