Slide set: Poor Pa's trousers (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 9 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1**

Mr Spriggings orders a new pair of trousers for his Club Dinner, but they are a little too long

Slide 2**

Asks his eldest daughter to alter them, but she cannot leave the piano

Slide 3**

His second daughter cannot leave her essay on Rational Dress

Slide 4**

His wife cannot leave off reading an important debate on the Women's Suffrage question

Slide 5**

He is obliged to go to his Club in an old pair of check trousers

Slide 6**

Cecilia relents and leaves the piano, and cuts a piece off the legs

Slide 7**

Sophronia, having completed her essay, does the same

Slide 8**

Ma, after three hours' reading, remembers his request

Slide 9**

The result -- Pa's trousers converted into a pair of knickerbockers

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (3)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 33

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), C 8

“From Funny Folks. By permission.”

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [1]

“Copied by permission from Funny Folks. A most humorous story illustrating the saying, 'Save me from my friends.'”

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), 303

“His trousers are by mistake cut shorter by each member of his family, with astonishing results. A slight hit, too, at the higher education of women.”

Lucerna ID 3005555

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 8 October 2021

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Slide set: Poor Pa's trousers (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 9 slides, in/before 1888)