Magic Lantern Slide: A group of over 42s at Baghdad
This photographic slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a group of military men posing for the camera. Alfred Rowden is sitting cross-legged at the front right of the image. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. This photograph reflects the frustration they felt at waiting to return home after the end of the war.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/1052
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: A group of over 42s at Baghdad
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'A group of over 42s at Baghdad. / All men over 42 were supposed to have been sent home. / A.O. Rowden / S.C.P. M.687 M.Q.2' 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
