Magic Lantern Slide: Flower Studies - Aster, Veitch of Exeter
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows an Aster flower, and the title of the slide suggests it was a variety collected or cultivated by the Veitch family of Exeter. The Veitches were famous for collecting rare plant specimens, and also ran a nursery in Exeter. Weaver Baker was a keen amateur photographer and produced sets of slides on different themes, this slide being part of a set of 52 flower images.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 316/1977/5
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collector Excavator
- Weaver Baker, Mr
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Flower Studies - Aster, Veitch of Exeter
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten slide title 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
