Slide set: The gin shop (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

Set details Slide listing References to this set

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

This is the gin shop all glittering and gay

Slide 2

These are the drinks that are sold night and day

Slide 3

This is the landlord who coins his bright gold

Slide 4

This is the landlady, all jewels and lace

Slide 5**

These are the customers, youthful and old

Slide 6

This is the drunkard in rags and disgrace

Slide 7

Slide 8

Slide 9

no image available

Slide 10

This is the church, to which, one Sabbath-day

Slide 11

This is the text which the good pastor chose

Slide 12

This is the cottage, the home of delight

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (8)

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), 104

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 114

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 484

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 85

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 472

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 37

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

“Cruikshank, Told after the fashion of ' The house that Jack built.'”

Lucerna ID 3000733

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 12 May 2024

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Slide set: The gin shop (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)