Slide set: Our penny readings (story: Newton & Co., 14 slides, in/before 1888)

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Catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides (London: Newton & Co., 1899), 513

“A Series of Original Hand-Painted Slides.”

1909

Catalogue of science lanterns, optical lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides (London: Newton & Co., 1909), 497

“A Series of Original Designs.”

1912

Catalogue of lantern slides: part I (London: Newton & Co., 1912), 173

“A Series of Original Designs.”

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), 301

“A very funny account of the different persons taking part in a village 'penny readings,' with illustrations of their manners, sayings and songs.”

Lucerna ID 3005526

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 21 April 2021

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Slide set: Our penny readings (story: Newton & Co., 14 slides, in/before 1888)