Magic Lantern Slide: Larva of Housefly x5
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.
- 45/1960/95/606
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Larva of Housefly x5
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'E 452 Housefly Larva x5 E 452' on top edge; handwritten 'Larva of House-fly x5 Sep.10.16 / A.O. Rowden / Magnified 5 times. / E.452 Neg.452 A.O. Rowden' 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
- 10/9/1916
