Magic Lantern Slide: Baghdad workers
This photographic slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a local man very heavily laden with a large bale on his back. 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.
- 45/1960/95/1036
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Baghdad workers
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M 636 636' on top edge; handwritten 'Bagh[...] [...]col / Baghdad Workers. Class F11 Set 3. / 636 / A.O. Rowden' on masking strips
- 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
