Magic Lantern Slide: E.F.C. Compound, Advance Base, Baghdad
- Description
- This photograph by Alfred Oliver Rowden is shows the Expeditionary Force Canteen compound within the Advance Base at Baghdad, Iraq. Rowden was in Mesopotamia during the First World War and was not sent home until 1919 or 1920. He photographed daily scenes like this to record his experiences.
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1960/95/929
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: E.F.C. Compound, Advance Base, Baghdad
- Simple Name
- slide
- Full Name
- Lantern Slide: E.F.C. Compound, Advance Base, 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 374 E.F.C. Compound' on top edge; handwritten 'E.F.C. Compound. Adv. Base, Baghdad / A.O. Rowden / Pag. Trans. M/374 H.Q Br' on masking strips
