Magic Lantern Slide: Aeschna cyanea female in sun
Alfred Rowden was a keen amateur photographer and natural historian in Exeter. He often gave talks at local field clubs, illustrated with magic lantern slides that he created or purchased from commercial manufacturers. He recorded scenery and wildlife specimens around Devon. This slide is one of two showing this dragonfly specimen under different lighting conditions (see 45/1960/95/351), with the ‘sun’ in this image replicated using a handheld torch or similar.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/352
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Aeschna cyanea female in sun
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'Z.724 Aeschna cyanea ♀ Z.724' on top edge; handwritten 'Aeschna cyanea ♀ in sun. Sep.8.37 / A.O. Rowden made Sep.18.37 / Ilf. Spec. Z.724 Ilf' on masking strips
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 8/9/1937; 18/9/1937
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
