Slide set: Mrs Somebody swallowed a fly (song: Alfred Pumphrey, 7 slides, in/before 1873)

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List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 6

“By kind permission of C. Jeffery.”

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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), 296

“Firstly, Mrs. Somebody swallows a spider to catch the fly, then a bird to catch the spider, and so on ad lib.”

Lucerna ID 3005059

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: Mrs Somebody swallowed a fly (song: Alfred Pumphrey, 7 slides, in/before 1873)