Magic Lantern Slide: Mol's Coffee House, Exeter
This slide by William Weaver Baker shows Mol’s Coffee House, No. 1 Cathedral Close in Exeter. It was built in the late sixteenth century, but the Dutch gable facade was addition in the mid to late nineteenth century. This building is one of the most frequently drawn and photographed buildings in the city. Weaver Baker mainly took images of buildings and objects in Exeter, having resided there for at least 30 years.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/562
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Mol's Coffee House, Exeter
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'MOLS COFFEE HOUSE' on top edge; handwritten 'Mols Coffee House. Exeter. / In the Cathedral Close.' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
- Production Year High
- 1937
