Slide set: In the workhouse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1890)

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Slide 1**

It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse, and the cold bare walls are bright

Slide 2**

'Great God!' he cries; 'but it chokes me! for this is the day she died'

Slide 3**

He looked at the guardians' ladies, then, eyeing their lords, he said:

Slide 4**

'Keep your hands off me, curse you! hear me right out ot the end'

Slide 5**

'I came to the parish, craving bread for a starving wife'

Slide 6**

'I slunk to the filthy alley -- 'twas a cold, raw Christmas eve'

Slide 7**

'All through that eve I watched her, holding her hand in mine'

Slide 8**

'I rushed from the room like a madman, and flew to the workhouse gate'

Slide 9**

'For there in the silv'ry moonlight my Nance lay, cold and still'

Slide 3 (rpt)**

'You, who would feast us paupers, what of my murdered wife?'

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (6)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 43

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 392

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 59

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 5

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 418

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 38

Other reference

15 July 1890

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/401/72-75

Lucerna ID 3000606

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Slide set: In the workhouse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1890)