Slide set: Lodgings to let (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

Will Waddle, whose temper was studious and lonely

Slide 2

He enter'd his rooms, and to bed he retreated

Slide 3

So he sent for a doctor, and he cried like a ninny --

Slide 4

Will kicked out the doctor; but when ill indeed

Slide 5

'Look ye, landlord, I think,' argued Will with a grin

Slide 6

'In airing your bed my wife is no sloven'

Catalogue entries (5)

unknown

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 1

“Six Original Pictures”

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), C 11

“Six Original Pictures”

1891

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

“A humorous story in verse of a stout lodger who loses his substance and his health in a mysterious manner”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 188

“Six Original Pictures”

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 122

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

“An account, in verse, of Will Waddle's rapid decrease in rotundity in new lodgings by sleeping over a baker's oven.”

Lucerna ID 3005450

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: Lodgings to let (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, in/before 1888)