Slide set: The rationalistic chicken: or, the first problem (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 2 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 5

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [3]

“The chick who will not believe what he cannot see, even on the declaration of his own mother”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 192

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), 305

“S. J. Stone's verses on the chicken who says, 'what I can't see I won't believe in.'”

Lucerna ID 3005573

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: The rationalistic chicken: or, the first problem (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 2 slides, in/before 1888)