Magic Lantern Slide: Chaffinch 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.
- 45/1960/95/521
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Chaffinch Nest
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- Handwritten 'E.274 Chaffinch Nest E.274' on top edge; Handwritten 'Chaffinch Nest My.9.15' on top binding strip; 'A.O. Rowden' on right binding strip; 'E 274' 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
- 9/5/1915
