Lantern slide
The Slide House
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass and paper
Measurements
Each slide - 84 mm (length); 84 mm (width)
Place of origin
Queen Victoria Street, 52
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666749
Summary
111 magic lantern slides, some of which can be grouped together. There are: three photographs and one plan of the Forth Bridge construction; Nine photographs of Edinburgh buildings and monuments; a photograph of Queen Mary's Bedroom, Holyrood Palace; a photograph of the cannon 'Mons Meg'; a photograph of Calcutta; a photograph labelled 'Source of the Ganges'; a photograph of Niagara Falls; a photograph labelled '17 Niagara - Terrapin Tower, Winter'; a photograph labelled 'Tour in North Wales'; two photographs of the Giant's Causeway; a photograph of Stonehenge; a photograph labelled 'County of Kent'; a photograph of Salisbury Cathedral; a photograph of Canterbury Cathedral; a photograph of Durham Cathedral; a photograph of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh; a photograph of a narrow alleyway with the upper storeys meeting; the words of the hymn 'Fight the good fight'; a picture labelled 'Prince Charles entry into Edinburgh/Duncan'; a photograph of two boys and two girls labelled 'Expressions'; a photograph of a boy and a cow; a photograph of four men with baskets labelled 'Bempton' Egg-Climbers'; a photograph of a group of people looking at items on a trestle table in a street (possibly Edwardian); a photograph labelled '79 Launch of a P and O Liner, Queen's Island, Belfast'; a tinted photograph of two (Edwardian) girls by a waterfall labelled '3 killarney'; seven slides telling the picture story 'O'Toole and Umbrella' (numbered 1,2,5-9); an advertisement for a forthcoming film 'Siberia'; six slides of 'Cinderella' (numbered 1,3,4,8,10 and one unnumbered); nine slides of 'The Three Bears' (numbered 2-5, 7-11); twelve slides of 'Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog' (numbered 1-12) - one broken; nine slides of 'The House that Jack built' (numbered 1,3-6,8-11); seven slides of a story set in a snowy place (numbered 2,4-6,8-10); six slides of 'John Gilpin' (numbered 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, and 12); seven slides of a story in which all characters are pigs (numbered 1, 6, 7, 9, 10 and two un-numbered); four slides of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (numbered 3,6,7 and 10); five slides of 'Dick Whittington' (numbered 1,2,3,8 and 9); one slide with the picture rubbed off; and one broken piece from the corner of a slide. Total number of items is 111.
Makers and roles
The Slide House, maker