Slide set: Lantern puns: illustrations of mechanics (comic: Alfred Pumphrey, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

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List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 13

c.1889

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

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 200

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), 301

“Puns and jokes upon mechanical subjects, such as 'A Boring Machine' (lecturer), 'Drilling Machine ' (drill sergeant).”

Lucerna ID 3005566

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 19 March 2024

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Slide set: Lantern puns: illustrations of mechanics (comic: Alfred Pumphrey, 12 slides, in/before 1888)