Slide set: Neddie's care: or, suffer the little children (story: Bamforth & Co., 25 slides, 1887)

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Individual slides contained in this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1**

Introduction

Slide 2**

Neddie looked wistfully over the railings at the Home for the Destitute

Slide 3**

In crossing the floor she stumbled over the recumbent form of a sleeping man

Slide 4**

'What have you been up to all day? Where have you been?'

Slide 5**

The poor boy was evidently in the last stage of consumption

Slide 6**

She wrapped her ragged shawl closer round the dying boy

Slide 7**

'Only a penny, Sir, please give me a penny'

Slide 8

'What were you going to say?' asked the Mission Lady

Slide 9**

'Hark! that's my poor Dickey coughing'

Slide 10**

The room was quite empty except for the poor boy, who lay there in sore need of aid

Slide 11

She soaked a morsel in the broth and put it into Dickey's mouth

Slide 12**

'I can't leave him,' she said, 'he's such a little fellow, it would never do for him to be left'

Slide 13

He was very weak, poor little fellow, and glad of Neddie's help in raising the tea cup to his lips

Slide 14**

She poured a heap of pennies into her lap

Slide 15

'I'm Dickey's relation, Miss Gray, I'm going to see him. Do I look like a relation?'

Slide 16**

Hymn: 'The roseate hues of early dawn' (with vignette Neddie singing over Dickey's bed)

Slide 17**

For a few minutes after Neddie stopped singing, no one spoke

Slide 18**

'I never saw anything like it before,' said Dickey

Slide 19**

Two men carried her in apparently dead

Slide 20

'Have I been ill, Miss Bell?' said Neddie

Slide 21

Hymn: 'I heard the voice of Jesus' (with vignette)

Slide 22

It became necessary, on Dickey's repeated enquiries, to break the news to him

Slide 23**

'Oh! do take me to see my poor Dickey'

Slide 24**

Neddie put out one tiny hand toward them and said, 'Poor little Dickey, it doesn't hurt, dear'

Slide 25**

In the churchyard adjoining the home stands a marble cross, in memory of Neddie and Dickey

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

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Image type

Production

Background

1

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Drawing / painting / print

Photography

N/A

image content: Human figure – boy | Human figure – girl | Text – slide set title

2

Neddie looked wistfully over the railings at the Home for the Destitute

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

3

In crossing the floor she stumbled over the recumbent form of a sleeping man

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

4

'What have you been up to all day? Where have you been?'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

5

The poor boy was evidently in the last stage of consumption

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

6

She wrapped her ragged shawl closer round the dying boy

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

7

'Only a penny, Sir, please give me a penny'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

8

'What were you going to say?' asked the Mission Lady

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

9

'Hark! that's my poor Dickey coughing'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Exterior location

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

10

The room was quite empty except for the poor boy, who lay there in sore need of aid

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

11

She soaked a morsel in the broth and put it into Dickey's mouth

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

12

'I can't leave him,' she said, 'he's such a little fellow, it would never do for him to be left'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

13

He was very weak, poor little fellow, and glad of Neddie's help in raising the tea cup to his lips

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

14

She poured a heap of pennies into her lap

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

15

'I'm Dickey's relation, Miss Gray, I'm going to see him. Do I look like a relation?'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

16

Hymn: 'The roseate hues of early dawn' (with vignette Neddie singing over Dickey's bed)

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Text

Photography

N/A

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

17

For a few minutes after Neddie stopped singing, no one spoke

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

18

'I never saw anything like it before,' said Dickey

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

19

Two men carried her in apparently dead

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

20

'Have I been ill, Miss Bell?' said Neddie

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

21

Hymn: 'I heard the voice of Jesus' (with vignette)

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Text

Photography

N/A

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

22

It became necessary, on Dickey's repeated enquiries, to break the news to him

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

23

'Oh! do take me to see my poor Dickey'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

24

Neddie put out one tiny hand toward them and said, 'Poor little Dickey, it doesn't hurt, dear'

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

25

In the churchyard adjoining the home stands a marble cross, in memory of Neddie and Dickey

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Drawing / painting / print

Photography

N/A

Lucerna ID 3000436

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 15 March 2024

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