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Slide set: Madagascar and its people (lecture: Alfred Pumphrey, 50 slides, in/before 1888)

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c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 241

“Descriptive Lecture in Vol. II.”

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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

“This set starts with an explanatory. map, and shows mode of travelling, bread-fruit tree, traveller's tree and mode of obtaining water from it, slave girls pounding rice, mode of punishing slaves, the slave market, royal reception at the palace, etc., etc.”

Lucerna ID 3005463

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 29 May 2022

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Slide set: Madagascar and its people (lecture: Alfred Pumphrey, 50 slides, in/before 1888)