Magic Lantern Slide: Lepiota procera (Scop) Fr.
This slide is part of a set showing different types of fungus with this specimen described as ‘The Parasol’. The slides were bought by the Royal Albert Memorial College in 1933 to use as a teaching aid in classes for local men and women. Each image is a photographic print which has been hand-coloured. They were made and sold by CT Green who was a medical practitioner and amateur botanist in Cheshire.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 15/1933/13
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsionpigment
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Lepiota procera (Scop) Fr.
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'LEPIOTA PROCERA' on top edge; handwritten 'Edible / 15/1933.13' on top edge binding strip; handwritten 'Lepiota procera (Scop) Fr. / The Parasol / C Theodore Green. FLS. 1933' on mount
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Town
- Birkenhead
- Production Country
- United Kingdom; United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1933
- Production Person Initials
- ; C. Theodore
- Production Person Surname
- C. Theodore Green; Green
