Magic Lantern Slide: Viper upper side
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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/513
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Viper upper side
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- Handwritten 'E.259 Viper Upper Side E.259' on top edge; Handwritten 'Viper upper side' on top binding strip; 'A.O. Rowden Apl.11.15' on right binding strip; 'E.259 E.259' on bottom binding strip
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
- Production Year Low
- 11/4/1915
