Magic Lantern Slide: Group of women and children in street
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a detail of the queue of local women and children seen in slide 45/1960/95/990. 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.
- 45/1960/95/991
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Group of women and children in street
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'M.523'[faded] on top edge; handwritten '523' on masking strip; handwritten 'S.C.P. Pag.' on bottom edge binding 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
