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Slide set: India (lecture: Newton & Co., 162 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), 252

“Aden commences the set, then on arrival in India we have eleven views of Agra. Proceeding, we have six pictures for Benares , we have eleven for Bombay, seven for Calcutta, four for Cawnpore. Then we have Cashmere (7), Ceylon (18), with views in Colombo (the capital). We behold a Daughter of the Land, Procession, with Budda's Tooth, etc. We then see Delhi (13), H.R.H. Prince of Wales receiving Native Princes, various Idols, Lahore (5), L,ucknow (8 Madras 6), Maharajah of Rewal in State Costume, Missionary Preaching, Nizam (8), including Palm Tree Climbing, Fakir's Self-torture, etc., etc.”

Lucerna ID  3005375

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