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Slide set: Underground life: or, mines and miners (lecture: Alfred Pumphrey, 34-35 slides, 1869-1873)

Known references to this set
Catalogue of photographic transparencies for lantern slides (Birmingham: Pumphrey Brothers, 1872), 9

“Illustrating some of the dangers and difficulties in Mining. (By permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall.)”

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), 269

“The set is illustrative of some of the dangers and difficulties in mining, and the subject is taken from Chapman and Hall's 'Underground Life, or, Mines and Miners.' The slides show Coal with Impression of a Fern, etc , Boring Operations, Explosion of Fire Damp, Prisoners Condemned to the Mines at Mexico, etc., etc.”

Lucerna ID  3005081

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 23 March 2023

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