Magic Lantern Slide: View from Pelly's Pass, Persia
- Description
- This photographic slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows a landscape scene with a route known as ‘Pelly’s Pass’, presumably named after the victorian Sir Lewis Pelly. It is a duplicate image of slide 45/1960/95/1095. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. He photographed scenes like this to record his experiences.
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/1096
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: View from Pelly's Pass, Persia
- Simple Name
- slide
- Full Name
- Lantern Slide: View from Pelly's Pass, Persia
- Dimensions
- whole width 83 mm; whole H 83 mm; whole TH 2.5 mm
- Production Person Surname
- Rowden
- Production Person Initials
- A.O.
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Date
- 1920
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Area Region
- North
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
- Material
- glass; paper; photographic emulsion
- Inscription / Transcription
- handwritten 'M 713'[sic] on top edge; handwritten '773' on masking strip; printed '11' on label
