Slide set: The amateur sweep (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1891)

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Slide 1

And when it is inclined to smoke, like that they're standing by / Why then, you'll guess it is no joke, and make folks 'fit to fly'

Slide 2

With calm deliberation, he has now made up his mind, / That for the smoky misery a remedy he'll find

Slide 3

And so, as all good workers do, when they begin to clean, / He tackled first the topmost fine, as may now here be seen

Slide 4

He than descended from the chair, a rather sad old chap, / And with a photographic air, removed the stove pipe's cap

Slide 5

A pretty picture now he made as you may plainly see; / He rued that he the filthy trade usurped so cheerfully

Slide 6

And now he got on swimmingly -- exerting every limb: / He filled with soot, as you may see, the tub quite to the brim

Slide 7

Just then his wife came to the door, and when she viewed the scene / She would have fainted on the floor, had there a clean spot been

Slide 8

At least his eloquence prevails -- she wipes her weeping eyes, / And though the mischief she bewails, to raise a smile she tries

Slide 9

With anger she directly fired, and gave him such a snub, / In consternation he retired, and tumbled in the tub

Catalogue entries (5)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 59

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 522

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 86

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 20

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 52

Lucerna ID 3000744

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 16 May 2024

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Slide set: The amateur sweep (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1891)