Slide set: Old London and our ancestors (lecture: Theobald & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1893)

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Known references to this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1**

Old London Bridge, showing the wooden houses that were built across the bridge

Slide 2

Fight between Alsatians and Templars in Blackfriars

Slide 3

The Mail Coaches starting from the Swan with two necks

Slide 4

The Frost Fair on the Thames when the Thames was frozen over and a Fair was held thereon

Slide 5

The Pillory and Stocks in London streets

Slide 6

Slide 7

Slide 8

no image available

Slide 9

Slide 10**

Slide 11**

Slide 12

A Coach stopped by Highwaymen on Blackheath

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Advertised in

1897

Thomas Bedding (editor), The British Journal photographic almanac and photographer's daily companion 1898 (London: Greenwood & Co., 1897), 493

Catalogue entries (4)

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 31

“This set of slides should be the most popular ever brought yout, and command an enormous sale. It shows London as it was during the 17th and 18th centuries, and pictures of our ancestors in those times. It cannot fail to be most interesting to every true Britisher, whether at home or abroad.”

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 141

1903

1903-4 price list: photographic apparatus and materials (London: George Houghton & Son, 1903), 767

1905

Price list of photographic apparatus and materials (London: Houghton's Ltd, 1905), 897

Lucerna ID 3005016

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 28 June 2017

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Slide set: Old London and our ancestors (lecture: Theobald & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1893)