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Slide set: The robbers (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1887)

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Slide 1

Two robbers asking for charity at an old gentleman's house

Slide 2

Slide 3

He fills their bags with the broken victuals

Slide 4

They return at night to break into the house

Slide 5

Slide 6

The old man is quietly reading, and hears the noise

Slide 7

He drops from the window to surprise them

Slide 8

They have succeeded in getting their bodies partly through

Slide 9

The old man comes very quietly round the corner

Slide 10

Slide 11

Slide 12

no image available

Catalogue entries (12)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), B 32

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 46

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), A 32

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 61

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 115

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 125

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 538

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 57

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 23

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 8

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 11

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 61

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), 304

“The robbers ask for charity from an old gentleman. He treats them sumptuously. At night they break into his house, but the old man catches them neatly, nails them to the wall, belabours them, and sends them home wiser men.”

1888

“Showing a ludicrous effect of Indians trying to rob a Settler's Shanty in the Backwoods.”

Lucerna ID 3000466

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 May 2024

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Slide set: The robbers (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1887)