Magic Lantern Slide: Absorbent System
This is one slide from a group donated by Dr Daniel West Samways, a medical doctor who lived in Clyst St George, and later in Topsham. They form a lecture set about human physiology which he will have used in teaching medical students.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 89/1919/15
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsionpigment
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Absorbent System
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- printed 'Human Physiology' and '30' on labels on mount; handwritten '21' on label at top corner
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Surname
- York & Son
- Production Year High
- 1888
