Slide set: The drunkard's children (story: York & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1**

Neglected by their parents, they are led to the gin shop

Slide 2**

Between the gin shop and the beer shop, the boy thief squanders away his ill-gotten gains

Slide 3**

From the gin shop to the dancing rooms, the poor girl is driven on to misery

Slide 4**

Urged on by his companions and drink, he commits a desperate robbery

Slide 5**

From the bar of the gin shop to the bar of the Old Bailey is but one step

Slide 6**

He is sentenced to transportation for life; the girl is acquitted. The brother and sister part for ever in this world

Slide 7**

Slide 8**

The poor girl, homeless, destitute, and gin-mad, commits self-murder

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (9)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 72

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 103

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 113

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 481

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 84

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), 471

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 193

“A short series of eight pictures by George Cruikshank.”

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 72

Other reference

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), 315

“Neglected by their parents, they are led to the gin shop, and from thence to ruin and death.”

Lucerna ID 3000730

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 11 May 2024

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