Slide set: A peep behind the scenes (story: Bamforth & Co., 36 slides, 1880s)

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The door was opened and a little girl stood before the man

Slide 3

She seized the picture eagerly and held it before her with evident delight

Slide 4

And when she tried to comfort her, her mother only wept the more

Slide 5**

'Do you hear me?' said her father, 'stop crying, at once'

Slide 6**

The poor woman raised herself in bed and arranged her little girl's curly tresses

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Slide 8

She fell asleep, her weary head resting on her mother's pillow

Slide 9

Slide 10

There was a little cottage near where the caravan was drawn up

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Slide 12

'Rosalie,' said her mother, 'would you like to hear, &c.'

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It was a very pale, sorrowful face, which the looking glass reflected

Slide 17

'I'm not going to lose a pretty child, like her, from the stage'

Slide 18

A great pine forest stretched on one side

Slide 19

'You mustn't cry for me, darling,' said her mother

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Slide 21

She opened the locket and looked at the sweet girlish face inside

Slide 22

Opening her eyes, she saw a girl standing by her bedside

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She often found her father in close conversation with the lady

Slide 25

And then she dropped on her knees and prayed earnestly

Slide 26

'Rosalie,' said her stepmother, 'I intend that you shall make yourself useful'

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They knelt down together on the attic floor

Slide 29

And seeing a woman stood at the porch, she asked the way to Pendleton

Slide 30

And Rosalie warmed her hands and told the caravan people how thankful she was for the help on the way

Slide 31

With a trembling hand she opened the little iron gate

Slide 32

Rosalie was too full of feeling for any words

Slide 33

Rosalie sat on a stool at her aunt's feet

Slide 34**

May and Rosalie were the best of friends at once

Slide 35

Betsey Ann looked an entirely different girl

Slide 36**

She met the same old man who gave her the picture

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (13)

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 32-33

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 15

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 107

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 117

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 415

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 15

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 6

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 441

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 57-58

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 11

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 258

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 174

“A good story of life among the travelling-show people, which is ever popular with young and old.”

c.1926

Lantern slide catalogue (London: Salvationist Publishing & Supplies, c.1926), 46

Other references (2)

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

“The Religious Tract Society's well-known story.”

27 July 1888

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/393/150-153

Lucerna ID 3000420

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 28 April 2024

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Slide set: A peep behind the scenes (story: Bamforth & Co., 36 slides, 1880s)