Slide set: The village blacksmith (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1891)

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Individual slides contained in this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1**

Title: 'The Village Blacksmith,' with smithy, &c, by moonlight

Slide 2**

Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands

Slide 3**

Week in, week out, from morn till night you can hear his bellows blow

Slide 3a

Like a sexton ringing the village bell when the evening sun is low

Slide 4**

And children coming home from school look in at the open door

Slide 5**

He goes on Sunday to the church and sits among his boys

Slide 6**

He hears his daughter's voice, singing in the village choir

Slide 7**

And it makes his heart rejoice

Slide 7a**

Effect. It sounds to him like her mother's voice singing in Paradise!

Slide 8**

Effect. He needs must think of her once more how in the grave she lies

Slide 9**

Toiling -- rejoining -- sorrowing onward through life he goes

Slide 10

Something attempted, something done has earned a night's repose

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

1

Title: 'The Village Blacksmith,' with smithy, &c, by moonlight

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Drawing / painting / print

Photography

N/A

image content: Astronomy – moon | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy

2

Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy

3

Week in, week out, from morn till night you can hear his bellows blow

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy

3a

Like a sexton ringing the village bell when the evening sun is low

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Drawing / painting / print

Photography

N/A

image content: Natural feature – river | Vegetation – tree | Building or structure (exterior) – church (exterior) | Natural feature – sunset

4

And children coming home from school look in at the open door

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy

5

He goes on Sunday to the church and sits among his boys

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

6

He hears his daughter's voice, singing in the village choir

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, James (1842-1911)

7

And it makes his heart rejoice

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

7a

Effect. It sounds to him like her mother's voice singing in Paradise!

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

8

Effect. He needs must think of her once more how in the grave she lies

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

9

Toiling -- rejoining -- sorrowing onward through life he goes

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

image content: Human figure – blacksmith | Building or structure (exterior) – forge / smithy

10

Something attempted, something done has earned a night's repose

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

Lucerna ID 3001966

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 May 2024

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