Magic Lantern Slide: Polystictus versicolor
This photographic magic lantern slide was created by Alfred Rowden, an amateur photographer from Exeter. During the First World War he continued his hobbies of photography and nature study and often visited Stoke Woods, near Exeter and other places upstream in the Exe Valley. This image shows the details of a common fungus.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/509
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Polystictus versicolor
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'E.250 Polystictus versicolor [faded] E.250' on top edge; handwritten 'Polystictus versicolor / Ap.4.15 A.O. Rowden / S.C.P. E.250' on masking strips
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
- Production Year Low
- 4/4/1915
