Magic Lantern Slide: Description of Book binding
This image by William Weaver Baker shows the inscription inside the front cover of a book bound in human skin. The library mark on the page suggests Baker had produced...
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Magic Lantern Slide: Book bound in Human Skin
This image by William Weaver Baker shows a book bound in human skin. Binding books in human skin was not uncommon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was often...
Magic Lantern Slide: Man walking in street with minaret in background
This photographic slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a street scene with a local man in the foreground, and a minaret behind. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World...
Magic Lantern Slide: Cuttle-fish
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...
Magic Lantern Slide: Matthiola incana --Sea Stock
A glass plate lantern slide ‘Matthiola Incana. Br. Sea Stock. Beer Cove, Devon’ made by CT Green....
Letter with postmark
This letter from Mr Barrett of Exeter to Mr John Aylward, merchant of London, is dated 1 June 1700. It bears the postmark 'Exon' in capital letters, together with the...
Magic Lantern Slide: Eggs of Nightjar, near natural size
This photographic magic lantern slide was created by Alfred Rowden, an amateur photographer from Exeter. During the First World War he continued his hobbies of photography and nature study and...
Magic Lantern Slide: Lower Tilberthwaite Farm House
This slide was commercially produced by Riley Brothers in 1892, and was made as part of a set called ‘Rambles round Coniston’. It is part of a slide collection donated...
Document from AB Merrick and Son
This invoice was issued by AB Merrick and Son, an oil merchants in Exeter. It was issued to Perriam’s shop in Budleigh Salterton, who began trading in 1812....