Magic Lantern Slide: Unidentified building
This slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows an unidentified building in Mesopotamia, possibly in Baghdad or Basrah. It is part of a set of photographs he took while in Mesopotamia, where he served during the First World War and remained until 1919 or 1920.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/847
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Unidentified building
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M 110' on top edge; handwritten 'S.C.P. 110' on masking strip
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1920
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
