Slide set: The newsboy's debt (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)

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Slide 1**

I saw a tiny, ill-clad boy -- one of thousands that we meet

Slide 2**

Slide 3**

So, with a half-unconscious sigh, I sought my office desk again

Slide 4**

An urchin entered, barely seven -- the same Scotch face, the same blue eyes

Slide 5**

It's only fit to sell for rags, but then, you know, it's all he had

Slide 6**

I thought him smiling in his sleep, and scarce believed her when she said

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (11)

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 34

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 17

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 98

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 106

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 389

“From the 'Child's Companion,' 1878, by permission.”

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 16

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), 415

“From the 'Child's Companion,' 1878, by permission.”

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 45

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 13

1912

Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 383

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), 299

“A gentleman trusts a newspaper boy to get change, which he was to bring to his office. The lad, however, is run over, but sends his brother to say that when he gets well he'll work to refund the money lost at the time of the accident.”

27 July 1888

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/393/154-155

Lucerna ID 3000426

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 May 2024

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Slide set: The newsboy's debt (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)