Magic Lantern Slide: Group of soldiers and local people in walled area
This photographic slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a busy crowd of local men and women, and military men. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. He photographed daily scenes like this to record his experiences.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/1033
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Group of soldiers and local people in walled area
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M 632' on top edge; handwritten '632' on masking strip; handwritten 'S.C.P. Ry.'[faded] on bottom edge binding strip
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1920
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
