Magic Lantern Slide: Room over portico, Hall-i'th-Wood
This photographic image is part of lecture set on the topic of Samuel Crompton and the cotton industry. The slides originally belonged to John Crabtree, who was HM Inspector of Factories. This slide shows part of the house called ‘Hall-i’th-Wood’ in Bolton, which is where Samuel Crampton first invented and built his ‘spinning mule’.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 118/1934/252
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Room over portico, Hall-i'th-Wood
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten '34' on label at top corner; handwritten 'Room over Portico / Hall-ith-wood' on mount
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- John H.
- Production Person Surname
- Crabtree
- Production Year Low
- 1863
- Production Year High
- 1924
