324/1977/53
This image is from a set of over 200 photographic images of Exeter Cathedral taken in the early twentieth century.
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312/1977/63
The Pilgrim’s Progress was written in 1678 and was very popular in Victorian England for its Christian message.
318/1977/185
This is part of a commercially-made set of magic lantern slides on the topic of bacteria.
118/1934/89
This photographic slide shows a graffiti carving on a tree trunk, and seems to record the date 1893.
45/1960/95/971
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a mosque in the background, with three boys looking at the camera in the foreground.
45/1960/95/150
This photograph shows a food stall laden with goods.
101/1981/51
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.
45/1960/95/317
Alfred Rowden was a keen amateur photographer and natural historian in Exeter.
67/1936/3
This image is from a collection created by Mr WA Walburn of ‘Heavytree’ Exeter.
313/1977/6
This slide is of a photograph taken in London and shows The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben from the banks of the River Thames.
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118/1934/90
This photographic slide shows the waterfall known as Stock Ghyll Force in Ambleside, Cumbria.
45/1960/95/972
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows an elderly man sitting on the ground next to a mud-brick wall.
45/1960/95/151
This photograph shows a carpenter at work in Baghdad, Iraq.
106/1981/2/1
This slide contains words from a Christian hymn written in 1869, and is the last of four slides containing the words for this particular hymn.
45/1960/95/318
67/1936/4
313/1977/7
This magic lantern slide shows a row of cottages in Lynmouth, Devon.
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312/1977/69
This slide was made by Dr William Bolderston who was described as a ‘Modern Language Master’ on the 1911 census.
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118/1934/91
This photographic slide shows the fern plant known as bracken.
45/1960/95/973
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a group of men in a doorway, probably the entrance to a mosque.
45/1960/95/152
This photograph shows a coppersmith craftsman at work in Baghdad, Iraq.
106/1981/2/2
St Clement’s church stood in the St Paul’s area of Bristol, and was destroyed during the Blitz of the Second World War.
45/1960/95/319
89/1919/1
This is one slide from a group donated by Dr Daniel West Samways, a medical doctor who lived in Clyst St George, and later in Topsham.
313/1977/9
This is a magic lantern slide showing Ilfracombe harbour in the evening.