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Set of Lantern Slides of a Dickensian Story (Incomplete), by Primus (?), c. 1920

Inventory Number 19101


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.19101

Item type
Object
Makers
Primus
Physical material
Glass
Paper
Paint
Object type
Lantern slide
Dimensions
Height: 83mm Width: 83mm Depth: 3mm Weight: 624g
Inventory No
19101

Description

Incomplete set of eleven transfer slides, of scenes from a Dickensian story. A bald, bespectacled man appears in most of the slides. They include a dinner party with the central character making a speech, people skating on a frozen lake or river, a man washing two of his young children while a third child holds the bowl of water and the central character sitting in a wheelbarrow in a pen with pigs and a goat, while a crowd watch him. Each slide has a black paper border.