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Slide set: Corporal Smart (story: J. Green & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

He meets the Donkey near the cross roads

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Slide 3

Slide 4

Slide 5

no image available

Slide 6

Slide 7

Slide 8

no image available

Catalogue entries (3)

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 59

“No Reading.”

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 131

“A very humorous set, showing how the donkey which the Darkie Corporal mounted played him some very nasty tricks. It elevated him in the air, and in various ways gave him a rise in the world. He does not now ride donkeys.”

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 669

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), 285

“Illustrations of the Ups and Downs of the Corporal on a Donkey.”

Lucerna ID 3000982

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 March 2024

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Slide set: Corporal Smart (story: J. Green & Son, 8 slides, in/before 1888)