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Kodak Gold 35mm colour print film

Empty box of Kodak Gold 200 colour print film for bright sun and flash photography, originally contained 8 rolls of 35mm film with 24 exposures each. Kodak Canada catalogue #109 0091. The box is stamped with a develop by date of 06/2007.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Polaroid Joycam

Item is a point and shoot camera for 7.3 x 5.4 cm instant photographis with Polaroid 500 Film, originally designed for the failed Captiva camera model (early 1990's). The camera was made very inexpensively, and camera back is held in place by only a sticker that acts as a hinge.

Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid i-zone 200

Item is a automatic, snapshot camera with built-in flash for instant 3.81 x 2.54 cm instant photographs on Polaroid iZone 200 film. An inexpensive moel with simple features, mechanical single-speed shutter, 50mm lens with a fixed focus and three aperture settings (indoors, cloudy and sunny). This camera is primarily to used for portraits taken at distances between 2 and 8 feet (0.6 and 2.4 meters). The camera was marketed mainly to younger consumers, as a kit with 6 packs of film.

Polaroid Corporation

Suntone 35 mm Focus Free

Item is a 35 mm roll film camera for standard 35 mm cassettes. The camera body is plastic with a fixed focus lens. Item includes manual and original box.

Sure Shot 105 zoom s

Item is a typical point and shoot camera. Motor driven, auto exposure, auto focus. Has a small screen on the back ofr various indications. Small built-in pop-up flash. Includes carrying case and strap.

Canon Inc.

Kodak Advantix T550

Item consists of a Kodak Advantix T550. It is an advanced photo system camera that is fully automatic, with self timer and date printing settings. It has an Ektanar All Glass Lens f3.5/28mm lens and a flip-up lens cover that also reveals the flash It is silver in colour.

Eastman Kodak Company

Magic Lantern Slide, Series II

Majority of printed images depict battles(Russo-Japanese War, Battle of Port Arthur, Second Boer War) and there a couple slides with depictions of generals, as well. Other slides depict train passing through town, people riding small animals, and ships caught in stormy waves near a harbour

Hanimex 110 LF tele

Item is marked with the Hanimex brand, though the camera was manufactured by the Vivitar Corporation. It is a 110 format camera with a built-in flash powered by two AA batteries. It has a fixed focus. The photographer can select either a normal or telephoto lens, by using a slide switch on top of the camera.

Easy Share CX 6330

Item is a small entry model digital snapshot camera, with automatic white balance and ISO and a resolution of 3.1 megapixels. The Kodak Retinar lens has a range of 3x optical zoom with a small optical viewfinder. The LCD screen at the back is 1 1/2 inches.

Bell+Howell BH25

Item is a small, automatic, digital snapshot camera with a 640 x 480 pixel VGA, CMOS sensor. Includes an f2.8 -f6.0 land, 8 MB built in memory, monochrome display and optical viewfinder. The camera is focus free, 40 cm to infinity and caputures 352 x 288 pixel movie clips in AVI Format. Item comes with USB Cable and Mr. Photo Software.

Minolta Dimage S404

Item is a point and shoot snapshot camera for photographs on compact flash card. Sensor is a 4 megapixel CCD for 2,270 x 1704 pixels.

Seagull 4B-1

Item consists of a 120 twin-lens reflex camera in its original purple packaging, including the original instruction booklet. The camera uses 120 roll film for 12 frames on 6 x 6 cm exposures or 16 frames on 4.5 x 6 cm exposures. The camera has two f1:3.5/75 mm lens and a 1-300 shutter.

Stereographs, China

File consists of stereographs and stereographic sets depicting structures, famous locations, and scenes from China, such as streets scenes and the Great Wall.

4 stereoscopic photographs by Keystone View Co.
3 stereoscopic photographs by Kilburn Brothers, in association with James M. Davis
5 stereoscopic photographs by H. C. White Co.
4 stereoscopic photographs by Underwood & Underwood
1 stereoscopic photograph by Strohmeyer & Wyman
1 stereoscopic photograph by Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours
1 stereoscopic photograph by Mactavish & Co. Ltd.
1 stereoscopic photograph by T. W. Ingersoll
7 stereoscopic photographs by unidentified publishers
1 series on Japan and China by Underwood & Underwood

Emergency digital camera keychain with collision kit

item is a miniature digital camera on a key chain. Intended for use in documenting traffic accidents, the kit includes a carrying case for the glove compartment and a collision kit for recording information regarding the accident. The camera contains a 16MB memory, for 243 photos and can also act as a video camera or web camera.

Nishika N8000

Item is a four-lens, three-dimensional camera, originally developed by the Nimslo company, the Nishika copies were created after Nimslo was taken over by Nishika in 1989. The camera has a plastic body and 4 identical lenses, a fixed 1/60th shutter that exposes the four square images in synch. When exposed, the 35mm film had to be sent to specialty labs equipped for autostereo (lenticular) colour printing, which produced a true stereo image without the use of glasses. This process was also developed by Nims and Lo, of the original company.

Singapore album

Red cover album bound by blue and white braided string. Layers of cover are separating. Black pages with photographs held in with photo corners. Handwritten notations in white ink. Interleaving is pretty brittle, torn and cracked.

Album includes photographs showing the 1955/56 military tour of duty. Photographs are of Singapore, training boats, the H.M.A.S. Tobruk, Lok Ma Chau and the October 1856 riots, camp, rugby, swimming, water polo, the railway, Hong Kong, Malaya, and ends with some photographs taken in Australia. Themes and items also include early cars, buses and military vehicles, snapshot portraits, uniforms, Rugby Cup pamphlet, activities on board H.M.A.S. Tobruk, Riot squad and October '56 riots, Christmas 1956,

Locations and sites include Gilman Barracks, Kuala Lampur,

Loose materials include admission stub from The Balmy Beach Rugger Club Volleyball Tournament Dance in July, 1968; several loose photographs.

Malta, Italy, China album

Green fabric-coated album with some decorative linear gold embossing. Spine torn along edges. First and last page have a decorative leaf pattern. Notations are handwritten in black ink. Photographs are mounted in between two layers, seemingly embedded into album's pages.
Photographs are of a family traveling through Malta, Italy, Portugal and China, taken at sites such as Pompei, Mount Vesuvius, the Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace, as well as some photographs of the railway through a mountainous countryside.
Some photographs include images of the crew and family aboard the S.S. Somali, a British passenger and cargo steam ship that travelled between England and Hong Kong, stopping at locations such as Italy and India to drop off or pick up cargo. The ship was built in 1930 and was destroyed by a bomb while being towed on March 27, 1941. The shipwreck still remains upright off the coast of the United Kingdom, on the East side of Glasgow off the shore of North Sunderland.

Assuming dates of album are between 1930-1941, based on S.S. Somali's active days, King of Italy pictured would be King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his Queen, Elena of Montenegro.

Places: Chapel of Bones, Mount Vesuvius, Camaldoli Monastery, Temple of Venus, Temple of Jupiter, Temple of Mercury, Temple of Heaven.
Locations: Pompei, Baia, Malta, Naples, Italy, Gozo, Pekin, China.
Themes: portraits, S.S. Somali, landscapes, railroads, sailing, King and Queen of Italy.

Shields, Lorne

Cheescake pinups

Brown embossed cover, bound with green string. Photos held with black photo corners. Individual portraits show naked women in variety of settings such a studio and outdoors.
Consists of images of nude women of multiple heritage, including Chinese, Japanese, USA, Hawaii.
Some photos have copyright symbol printed onto photographs.

Military tour of duty album

Red cover embossed with foreign letters in gold; bound with yellow and black string. Notations in white ink and drawing on pages in yellow pencil. Black pages with thin protective paper bound between pages. Some photographs lose or partially loose.

Additional materials consist of stamps, envelopes, menus, business cards, receipts, advertisements, postcards, newspaper clippings, foreign [paper] currency; includes elements from British Red Cross Society, International Photo Supply Co., Kodak film, and a menu and program from Old Alleynians Annual Dinner containing multiple signatures on the back.

Sites and locations include Whitfield Barracks, The Bank of China in H.K., The Elinor, Hong Kong Bisley, the Sai King Patrol; countries include Singapore, Hong Kong, Repulse Bay,
Themes include military photographs, sailing, ships, rugby, individual and group portraits, early military tanks and activities.

Panorama Wide Pic

Item is a 35 mm, plastic point and shoot camera that takes wide panoramic style photographs on 35mm film. The exposures are masked off (cutting off the top and bottom of the 35mm frame) to produce panoramic images.