Magic Lantern Slide: Nest of Wood Pigeon from below
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.
- 45/1960/95/519
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Nest of Wood Pigeon from below
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- Handwritten 'E.269 Wood Pigeon Nest E.269' on top edge; Handwritten 'Nest of Wood Pigeon from below' on top binding strip; 'My.2.15 A.O. Rowden' on right binding strip; 'E.269', '427'[pencil, deleted], '134' [pencil] 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
- 2/5/1915