Magic Lantern Slide: Lynmouth
This magic lantern slide shows a row of cottages in Lynmouth, Devon. This small seaside community was devastated by the 1952 Lynmouth Flood.
William Weaver Baker was a keen local amateur photographer and his collection of lantern slides offer a rare glimpse of Exeter and the surrounding area 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 and the surrounding area in the early twentieth century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/7
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- East Africa
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Lynmouth
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'Lynmouth' on label
