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Slide set: How to catch a hippopotamus (story: W.C. Hughes, 3 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set
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), 288

“The Little Piccaninies' Picnic on the Nile. They coolly have a ' picnic in slate,' whilst they ' for old hippopoppy wait,' and accomplish their business of catching him in rare old style.”

Lucerna ID  3005370

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