Magic Lantern Slide: Hedge Sparrow Nest
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.
- 45/1960/95/515
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Hedge Sparrow Nest
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- Handwritten 'E.262 Hedge Sparrow Nest P. Colour E.262' on top edge; Handwritten 'Hedge Sparrow Nest.' on top binding strip; 'Apl.25.15 A.O. Rowden' on masking strip at right; 'Pag. Colour. E.262' on masking strip at bottom
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
- Production Year Low
- 25/4/1915
