Alfred Rowden was a keen amateur photographer and natural historian in Exeter. He often gave talks at local field clubs, illustrated with magic lantern slides that he created or purchased...
Alfred Rowden was a keen amateur photographer and natural historian in Exeter. He often gave talks at local field clubs, illustrated with magic lantern slides that he created or purchased...
This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a group of men on a river bank pulling a river boat. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was...
This image is from a set of over 200 photographic images of Exeter Cathedral taken in the early twentieth century. They were donated to the museum by Mr Weaver Baker...
This late 19th century double projector was designed to show glass magic lantern slides in a continuous slide show with fading technique. The original light source was by means of...
Owen Angel was a prolific Victorian photographer who worked in Exeter for at least 50 years. He specialised in portraits, often producing ‘cartes de visites’, and during his career worked...
This scrap of paper is a credit note which states ‘surpluss ticketts 10 ticketts £7 Elizabeth Chapman’....
This object is described in the museum records as a ‘wenches bridle’ from Exeter Prison. It is a simple band of iron which locked around the waist as a method...
This jar is marked ‘The St Anne's Well Brewery Company Limited, Wine Merchants, Exeter'. Many stoneware flagons like this were made in Bristol....