Magic Lantern Slide: Poling Mahaila, River Tigris
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a group of men with a ‘mahela’ boat on the river Tigris. This is the same image as slide 45/1960/95/979. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. He photographed daily scenes like this to record his experiences.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/980
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Poling Mahaila, River Tigris
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M 496 Poling Mahaea' on top edge; handwritten 'Poling Mahaila R. Tigris. / A.O. Rowden. / M/496 Amidol' on masking strips
- 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
