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Slide set: Ye elephant and ye tailor (comic: manufacturer unknown, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Slide 1
Title
Slide 2
Tailor working and elephant looking in
Slide 3
Tailor pricking trunk of elephant
Slide 4
Tailor working
Slide 5
Elephant filling his trunk with water
Slide 6
Elephant approaching window
Slide 7
Elephant soaking tailor with water
Slide 8
Elephant teazing his victim
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), 286

“An elephant pays a friendly call to a tailor, who pricks trunk with a needle. The elephant goes and fills his trunk with water, and gives the tailor a regular swamper.”

Lucerna ID  3004378

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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