Magic Lantern Slide: N.C.O. Mess on P.S. 25 on Tigris to Baghdad
- Description
- This slide by Alfred Oliver Rowden shows the Non-Commissioned Officers mess on the PS 25 boat, on which he was travelling to Baghdad. This is a posed photograph with four men sitting laughing together, with towels hanging on the ships rails behind them. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920.
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/835
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: N.C.O. Mess on P.S. 25 on Tigris to Baghdad
- Simple Name
- slide
- Full Name
- Lantern Slide: N.C.O. Mess on P.S. 25 on Tigris to Baghdad
- 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 77'[faded] on top edge; handwritten 'N.C.O. Mess on P.S. 25 on Tigris to Baghdad / A.O. Rowden / S.C.P. M.77 M.Q.2' on masking strip
