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This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a local type of raft called a ‘kelek’, and the title of the slide suggests it is near the city of Mosul, Iraq.
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The title of this photographic slide probably refers to the refugee camp north of Baghdad, which houses Assyrian deportees and refugees between 1918-1920.
101/1981/38
This slide is from a talk called ‘John Ploughman's pictures: or, more of his plain talk for plain people’, written by a Baptist preacher called Charles Spurgeon.
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Alfred Rowden was a keen amateur photographer and natural historian in Exeter.
149/1915
This slide is part of a set depicting Rotifera, a microscopic water-borne organisms.
106/1981/2/57
This slide is part of a private collection of magic lantern slides donated to the museum in 1981, many of which contain Christian and moralistic messages or images.
324/1977/41
This image is from a set of over 200 photographic images of Exeter Cathedral taken in the early twentieth century.
67/1936/1
This image is from a collection created by Mr WA Walburn of ‘Heavytree’ Exeter.
312/1977/51
The Pilgrim’s Progress was written in 1678 and was very popular in Victorian England for its Christian message.
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This is part of a commercially-made lecture set of magic lantern slides on the topic of ‘Bacteriology of tropical diseases’.
118/1934/77
This photographic slide shows the cast iron bridge at Betws-y-Coed which spans the river Conwy in Wales.
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This photographic image shows a crowded gathering on the street, possibly in Baghdad.
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This photographic slide shows a fern plant.
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This photographic image shows people in Baghdad.
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