Slide set: Raw gorbs (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 5 slides, in/before 1888)

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Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), C 9

“Negatives taken from Life”

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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), 305

“The negatives in this set are taken from life, and illustrate the snaring of birds by boys to prevent the loss of the farmers' corn. One little boy collects the unfledged birds, hence the little 'Raw Gorbs.'”

Lucerna ID 3005574

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 January 2012

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Slide set: Raw gorbs (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 5 slides, in/before 1888)