Magic Lantern Slide: Stormy Sky, Blackpool, 1935
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows Blackpool beach in 1935, with many people standing on the beach, and one person paddling. Weaver Baker often took photographs to capture natural light, and this scene of the stormy sky shows diagonal sun rays through the clouds.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/401
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Stormy Sky, Blackpool, 1935
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'BLACKPOOL' on top edge; handwritten 'Stormy Sky. Blackpool. 1935.' on mount
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1935
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
