A recruit too short to become a soldier qualifies as a result of an accidental bump on his head. Coloured magic lantern slides.
- Date:
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
- Reference:
- 754962i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Ned Noggs, a building worker in ragged clothes, is rejected by the army because he is half an inch too short. On a building site he is accidentally hit on the head by a falling brick. He returns to the recruiting ground and is measured again: owing to the bump he is now found tall enough to enlist and is "complimented on his developed bump of benevolence"
Publication/Creation
London (52 Queen Vic[toria] St., London E.C.) : H.L. Toms, [between 1890 and 1899?]
Physical description
4 photographs : transparencies, coloured ; each 8.2 x 9 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Half an inch of being a soldier. Comic slides (Copyright).
Last slide gives source of the designs: "From 'Scraps'"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 754962i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
nos. 1-4
Location Status Access Closed stores