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Slide set: Our colonial Empire (lecture: Newton & Co., 50-80 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set
Catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides (London: Newton & Co., 1899), 461

“Series of Slides illustrating Emigrant and up-country life, in our Colonies and India.”

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), 254

“Australia with its Map, its views at Adelaide, and at Sydney, its Kangaroo Hunt, Buck-jumping Horse, Sheep, Ox Waggons, Natives, etc., 23 pictures , Canada with Winnipegg the Emigrant Centre, a Forest Path in Winter, a Horse in Snow Shoes, etc., 22 pictures , Cape Colony with Cape Town, Kaffirs at Natal, etc., 7 pictures , India with Map, Snake-charmers, Native climbing Palm Tree, etc.. 17 , New Zealand with its Gods, Maoris, and Boiling Mud Springs, etc., 11 pictures.”

Lucerna ID  3005522

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 April 2021

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