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Slide set: Central Africa (lecture: York & Son, 50 slides, 1876)

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Africa -- Map, to show the routes of modern explorers

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Portraits of Cameron and other modern explorers

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African Scenery -- Victoria Falls of the Zambesi River

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African People -- Interviewing a Native King

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The Curse of Africa -- Slavery; the Hunters

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The Curse of Africa -- Slavery; the Captives

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African Travel -- An Unexpected Interruption

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African Travel -- An Old Explorer Discovered

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African Travel -- The Bringing Home of Livingstone

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Catalogue entries (4)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 85

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 57

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 60

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 85

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), 251

“The Rev. J Comper Gray's lecture is here illustrated by a Map, Portraits, Views of the Victoria Falls, of Lake Tanganyika, Pictures of Native Animals, People, Houses. Customs, Incidents of Travel, attention being drawn to slavery under the headings, ' Hunters' and 'Captives.'”

Lucerna ID 3003034

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 15 February 2021

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Slide set: Central Africa (lecture: York & Son, 50 slides, 1876)