Slide set: The labour-saving appliance (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 3 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [1]

“A very humorous set”

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), 294

“Blotherwich is induced to fix up a L.S.A., for which 'All you have to do is to open the window and down comes the basket,' but a midnight cat-howl results in B. bringing down the basket firstù on his own head.”

Lucerna ID 3005423

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 28 December 2012

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Slide set: The labour-saving appliance (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 3 slides, in/before 1888)