J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (circa 1900)

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56 Best Hand-coloured Photographic Effect Slides. Highly recommended. Accurately registered, sold only by the set. 2s. each slide, splendidly coloured. If it is desired to have each slide in mahogany frame, the price will be 6d. each extra. For use with Double Lanterns, can also be used with Single Lantern, excepting those slides marked with an asterisk (*) which can be omitted from the set when wished. Subjects as follow :— Eddystone Lighthouse, 4 slides, day, night, storm, lightning* Water mill, 3 slides, day, night, and mill lit up* Tower of London, 3 slides, day, night, and on fire* Westminster Abbey, 3 slides, day, night, and moon* Houses of Parliament, 3 slides, day, night, and clock tower illuminated* Windsor Castle, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* Buckingham Palace, 4 slides, day, night, illuminated* and interior St. Paul’s Cathedral, 3 slides, day, night, and interior Cologne Cathedral, 3 slides; day, night, and interior St. Peter’s, Rome, 4 slides, day, night, interior, and illuminated* Paris Opera House, 4 slides, day, night, illuminated,* and interior—grand staircase Mosque of Omar, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* Paris, 3 slides, day, night and illuminated* Bay of Biscay, 4 slides, day, night, storm, lightning Milan Cathedral, 4 slides, day, night, illuminated and interior* Bridge of St. Angelo, Rome, 4 slides, day, night, illumination and firework effect* Osborne House, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* The Colosseum, Rome, 3 slides, day, night, and interior The Taj Mahal, India, 3 slides, day, night, 1 and illuminated* The Temple of Heaven, Pekin, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* Cloth Bazaar, Cabul, 3 slides, day, night, j and illuminated* ’ Falls of Niagara, 3 slides, day, night, and rainbow* Netley Abbey, 2 slides, day and night Melrose Abbey, 2 slides, day and night A village street in Winter, 2 slides, day, and night Eiffel Tower, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated Grand Canal, Venice, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* Rosenlau Hotel, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* York Minster, 3 slides, day, night, and illuminated* Father’s come home, 3 slides The Vacant Chair at Gad’s Hill, 2 slides A Village Bridge, 2 slides, summer, winter A view on the Scheldt, 2 slides, day, night A Ship at Sea, 4 slides, day, night, storm, lightning Monte Carlo, 2 slides, day and night Bridge of Sighs, 2 slides, day and night Falls of Niagara, 2 slides, day and night The Seine, 2 slides, day and night Notre Dame Cathedral, 3 slides, day, night, and interior ^ A Village Bridge in Winter, 2 slides, day and night