Magic Lantern Slide: London, Parliament
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.
William Weaver Baker was a keen local amateur photographer and his collection of lantern slides offer a rare glimpse of Exeter, the surrounding countryside, and other areas of the UK in the early twentieth century.
William Weaver Baker was a keen local amateur photographer and his collection of lantern slides offer a rare glimpse of Exeter, the surrounding countryside, and other areas of the UK in the early twentieth century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/6
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: London, Parliament
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT' on top edge; handwritten '6856 London. Parliament.' on label on left edge binding strip
