Lantern slide
W. C. Hughes
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass and paper
Measurements
Each slide - 83 mm (width); 83 mm (height)
Place of origin
Hoxton Street, 151
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666748
Summary
Forty-five glass magic lantern slides comprising different groups. Each slide is edged with black paper. One group of five colour slides is entitled 'The Way of the World', the slides are numbered 1-5. They depict a man in bed and his dog. Nine coloured slides, each with an accompanying caption painted in red and black letters, are numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, and one other has a worn off number. Four coloured slides depict snowy scenes including people climbing in the snow and a St. Bernard dog rescuing a child. The slides are numbered 2, 3, 5 and 7. Two coloured slides depict exotic scenes. One depicts two men shooting a buffalo with palm trees in the background. The other depicts a boy riding an ostrich, watched by a man in a blue coat. Two coloured slides depict seaside scenes, both with a printed label reading 'W.C. Hughes, 'Brewster House'. One colour slide depicts a hymn entitled 'Fallen Among Thieves'. The slide is cracked. One colour slide depicts a doll or little girl with a teddy wearing bandages. The caption reads 'Ain't Babies Rough'. One colour slide depicts a red and blue curtain on either side of an easel on which is written 'Magic Lantern To-night 8 o'clock'. One colour slide depicts a baby in white holding a feeding bottle and a rattle. The caption reads 'The Child. What Shall He Become?' 'Train Up A Child In The Way It Should Go, And When He Is Old, He Shall Not Depart From It'. 'Prov.6.XXII'. One colour slide depicts a ship in an iceberg field at sunrise or sunset. One colour slide depicts men and reindeer with two wigwams in the distance. One black and white slide depicts three men draining their tankards. One colour slide depicts a man washing a little boy. Another boy holds a brown bowl. The smallest child wears a white shift dress. One colour slide depicts sailors dancing and playing musical instruments on the deck of a ship. One colour slide depicts Aladdin with the Genie. The word 'Aladdin' is written in black and red. One colour slide depicts a soldier wearing a red jacket with white cross bands and a black busby saying goodbye to his daughter at the station. His wife is crying on a bench. One colour slide depicts a kitchen scene of Mother bear wearing clothes and cooking porridge. On the right are three bowls on a table. One colour slide depicts little Red Riding Hood visiting the wolf dressed in a mob cap in bed. One colour tinted photograph depicts men bathing at the seaside. In the foreground are wheeled bathing machines. One colour slide depicts a child asleep in bed, visited by a wizard pouring out a pink drink into a glass. One colour slide depicts a boy rowing a boat made out of an enormous bird's nest, looking at a girl holding onto the tail of a flying kite. One colour slide depicts an old sailor holding a girl on the deck of a ship in a rough sea. One colour slide depicts two men on a capsizing raft with a yellow-orange sail. One colour slide depicts Victorian/ Edwardian passengers on the deck of a ship with all their luggage. A caption reads 'P and O'. One colour slide depicts people at a circus. There is a poster of a lion. One colour slide depicts children wearing brown and yellow fur-skin outfits in a wood. One is playing a pipe and behind him an ostrich dances. One colour slide depicts a domestic interior with a little girl making pastry on a table in front of a fire. Two children play on the floor, and a woman nurses a baby. One colour slide depicts an interior. There are monks wearing habits conversing with a woman with a child on her knee in front of the fire. Total number of items is 45.
Marks and inscriptions
On the paper label on the corner of the slide with the baby in white: 'W.C. Hughes/ OPTICIAN/ 151, HOXTON ST., N., LONDON.'
Makers and roles
W. C. Hughes, maker