Item is a sealed box of unexposed Kodak Plates: Lantern Slide Medium Plates.

Series contains cameras designed for children or created and distributed as marketing materials for different corporations. These cameras became most popular after the advent of film cartridges, as this greatly simplified the handling and lowered the cost. These cameras are predominantly inexpensive and simply designed, without features that allow the photographer to change aperture or shutter speed.

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Series contains cameras designed to be disposable. Usually simple, point and shoot cameras made of plastic cases with cardboard housings, these cameras were sold pre-loaded with film and returned to the photofinisher in tact for development. The plastic bodies were often returned to the manufacturer and re-used, with film and housing. Cameras such as this were marketed for travel, weddings, underwater or other situations where a more expensive camera may get damaged. They were available in different film speeds and some models included a flash.

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Series contains cameras that have with more than one lens, to create multiple images on the same light sensitive film or plate. These cameras were designed for several purposes, the most popular being the stereoscopic, or three-dimensional, image. Most stereo cameras work by taking two simultaneous images from slightly varying points of view that correspond to the distance between the human eyes. The images are then mounted side-by-side and viewed through a stereoscope (a system of two lenses that helps to converge the two photographs, to mimic the depth perception of binocular vision). Other three-dimensional cameras used four or more lenses to create images for lenticular prints.
Some multi-lens cameras were intended to create multiple copies of the same scene at one time, such as the gem tintype camera and passport camera, while others had shutters that took sequential shots to create images which show the passage of time on one frame.

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Item is a medium format twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format roll film, produced by Zeiss Ikon. Model number 252/16 stamped underneath. Lens is a Triotar 75mm, f3.5 with a compur 1 to 1/300 shutter.

Item is a 35mm camera with rapid-wind key on base. It has a coupled selenium light meter. Lens is a Baldanar F2.8 45mm with a Prontomat shutter. Automatic exposure is regulated with shutter speeds from 1/30th - 1/300th of a second.

Series contains mainly inexpensive, fully automatic 35 mm cameras marketed strictly for amateur use. These cameras are the high tech descendants of the box camera and most models have no manual control over focus, aperture, shutter speed, film winding or metering. The viewfinder on point and shoot models is, like the box camera and unlike reflex style cameras, not integrated with the lens; there is no mirror directing the view from the lens to the eye of the photographer. Most of the point and shoot cameras require batteries for operation.

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Item is a folding camera with an enameled art-deco sides. The camera uses 620 film for 2.25" 3.25" exposures. The camera also has a fold down metal strut to support self-erecting front. The lens on the camera is a Kodak Anastigmat f6.3.

This series contains cameras designed for use with commercially manufactured dry plate negatives. Produced between about 1880 and 1900, these cameras began to be marketed to amateur photographers due to the relative ease of using dry plates. Exposure times shortened, necessitating faster shutters, within the lens or camera. The equipment also became more compact, allowing for hand-held photographs.

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This series contains view cameras whose lighter and more compact design, as compared to larger, studio style cameras, allowed for them to be easily transported for use in outdoor settings and for travelling. Alterations like collapsible bellows (folding into either the back of the camera, the front or both), smaller lenses, and folding bodies allowed for the camera to be collapsed for easier movement. The advent of pre-prepared photographic dry plates (and later sheet film). further facilitated landscape and other outdoor photography.

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Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, for 4¾" × 6½" (120 × 165) or half-plate exposures on glass plates. Camera bellows are red leather and square cornered. The lens is a J.H. Dallmeyer rectilinear lens, dated 1889, with the serial number 49700.

Item is a camera produced by ICA with a Carl Zeisa lens. The camera uses [xfilm], has [X] lenses, [X] shutter speed of [X]. Item also comes with a leather case.

Item consists of 2 mounted posters featuring a reproduction of a 1870's illustration of the wet collodion process. A man and a boy standing in front of a tent and behind a camera. The man is covered by the camera blanket as he prepares his photograph, while the boy stands behind, holding a plate holder.

Item is a wooden stereoscope viewer meant to be held. Has glass lenses and metal surrounding the lenses. Wooden circles around the lenses and metal are falling off

Series contains pamphlets, cards, catalogues and booklest produced by photographers as handouts between 2000 and 2005. Artists include:

Lili Almog
Matthre Barlow
Mette Bersang
Beth Block
Joergen Brandt
Brittain Bright
Andrew Buurman
Catherine Cameron
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Marcelo Coelho
Lois Conner
Michael Corridore
Vincent Delbrouck
Gair Dunlop
Beth Dow
Sebastian Friedman
Johannes Galert
Moyrah Gall
Edouard Glissant
Jules Greenberg
Myar Greene
Kyna Gourley
Linda Hansen
Mark Edward Harris
Heinrich Heidersberger
German Herrera
April Hickox
Julia Hoerner
Michael Itkoff
Adam Jeppeson
Max Kandhola
Misty Keasler
Karen Keating
Jens Knigge
Michael Kolster
Oliver Krebs
Bob Kubiak
James Lerager
Rania Matar
Heather McMlintock
Beatrice Minda
Rizwan Mirza
Edgar Moreno
Huong Ngo
Christian Nielinger
Dan Nelken
Rachel Papo
Mary Parisi
Patricia Pastore
Gilles Perrin
Liv Carle Mortenesen
Liza Nguyen
Elizabeth Orbutt
Betty Press
Susan Raab
David Ramkalawon
Scully & Osterman
Sole, Magdalena
Kristopher Stallworth
David Star
Amy Stein
Wei Leng Tay
Mogens Ulderup
Jim Vecchi
Carla Williams
Dennis Witmer

Pawel Zak

Series contains pamphlets, press releases, invitations, and publications for photographic exhibitions in museums, galleries, festivals and universities in the United States and some abroad, during 2002. Venues include:

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Civiche Raccolte d'Arte Applicate ed Incisioni, Milan
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
FotoFest, Houston
Houston Centre for Photography
Kouros, New York
Menil Collection, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego
Peabody Essex Museum
Portland Art Museum
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
San Diego Museum of Man
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
World Forestry Centre Museum, Portland
Victoria and Albert Museum

Item is a handheld view master manufactured by Sawyer's Inc and first introduced at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). Item is made of plastic and metal. Reel of 7 diametrical, 16 mm colour transparencies of famous landmarks in British Columbia, Canada. The lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time once pressed. Reels are interchangeable and come with a variety of themes.

This item is an optical instrument designed to create larger three-dimensional experiences from a two-dimensional photograph. Item is made of wood and has two sets of lenses made to enlarge images. Lenses also create different effects: "day effect" caused by reflected light, and a"night effect" created from a transparency with light shining through it. Item folds down onto itself. The pontioscope was one of many optical instruments designed by Carlo Ponti (1823-1893). Ponti also made and distributed stereoviews of Italian cities and reproductions of art. In 1866, Ponti became the official photographer to the king of Italy. Eventually opening other branches throughout Europe, America and Canada. In 1868, a legal battle began between Carlo Naya and Carlo Ponti over the rights to Ponti’s inventions. Naya had worked with Ponti from 1857 onwards developing pictures under his trademark,however, in 1868 Naya began selling imitations of Ponti’s inventions. In 1876, Ponti attempted to get back the sole rights to his invention but was unsuccessful.

This item is a rectangular tabletop stereoscope built with a rotating metal belt inside containing 37 images of portraits, interior spaces, and landscapes.

Item is a 46B Visual Survey Telebinocular used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect. Item is metal with a plastic eye piece. A lamp bulb is installed and attached to a power cable. Lamp bulb illuminates backs of stereographs or transparencies when viewed through the eye piece. Patent No. 2557608 made by Keystone View Company. Comes with 4 stereographs made by various photographers and studios such as G.W. Wilson, Underwood & Underwood and B.W Kilburn.

Item is a black handheld stereoscope made of metal and attached to a wooden handle. Viewer has no hood. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect.

Item is a hand held metal stereoscope with a wooden handle. Viewer is lined with velvet. Hood of viewer is engraved with leaf design and branded with the TR trademark. Handle is able to bend back onto viewer.This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect.

This item is a large metal circular shaped stereoscope with glass flower designs on the sides. This coin operated stereoscope activates a mechanism that turns a metal belt containing built in stereographs. Richard R. Whiting formed the American Novelty Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Whiting developed and sold stereoscopes from the 1880s till the mid-1900s. He manufactured the sculptoscope in 1925. The sculptoscope was commonly seen in arcades and cigar shops. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the card holder then users would look through the lenses hood which would overlap the two images to mimic a three-dimensional effect. The sculptoscope uses a simple trigger for actuation. The counterweight cylindrical foot in front the viewer holds it in a comfortable viewing position and acts as a coin box. The top of the viewer has a plain glass window to illuminate the stereoviews and allow the user to look at the back of the previous card. A penny releases a set of 15 views to be show.

Patent # 1, 436, 742 (November 28, 1922).

Item is a plastic and metal stereo viewer used to observe reels of Kodak colour three-dimensional transparencies. Knob on the side switches transparencies.

Written on box: "Focus and interocular adjustments, takes all standard stereo mounts, operates anywhere-converts to 110-volt"

Item is a hand held Holmes style stereoscope made of wood and aluminium. Viewer hood is lined with velvet and engraved with a leaf pattern. Handle folds onto viewer. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images have overlapped to mimic a three-dimensional effect.

Written on object: Warranted Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers New York Patent Applied For.

Item is a hand held wooden stereoscope manufactured by Underwood & Underwood. Viewer hood is made of aluminium and is adorned with floral engravings. Handle folds back onto viewer and card slider can be adjusted. Written on top of item : Sun Sculpture U&U trademark. Written on handle : Man'f'd by Underwood & Underwood, New York, June 11, 1901, Foreign Patent Applied For. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images have overlapped to mimic a three-dimensional effect.

Item is a wooden polyorama style stereoscope and comes with a glass stereograph depicting a group of people standing in front of Niagara Falls. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. First, the stereograph is placed in the card holder. Next the user would look through the opposing lenses. This would create the effect of merging both images to mimic a three-dimensional single image. The viewer comes with a flap designed to distribute more light into the viewer and glass front.

Written on stereograph : Point of View-Summer. No 29, James Thomas, Niagara Falls.

Item contains 4 audio cassettes of a by American photographer John Brumfield as part of the 1978-1979 Image Arts lecture series.

Series contains audio recordings of talks given by photographers as part of a series entitled "Photographers Speak", which took place in Rochester NY in 1982. Speakers included: Anthony Barboza, Lillian Bassman, Scott Hyde, Nathan Lyons, Martha Madigan, Nile Root, Henry Holmes Smith, Keith Smith, and John Wood.

Series contains audio recordings of public lectures given by photographers, filmmakers, theorists, and critics as part of the Kodak chair lecture series, presented at Ryerson University. Two of the lectures (Tom Sherman, October 21st and Steven Marx, January 27th) were not recorded.

Item consists of 2 audio tapes of the artist Yvonne Rainer speaking about her work as a filmmaker. The lecture took place at Ryerson University as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture Series.

Series contains audio recordings of 5 lectures by photographers and filmmakers that took place as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture series at Ryerson University in the 1992-1993 academic year. No recordings exist for the Richard Benson, Stephen Livick, and Sabastião Salgado lectures.. The lecture schedule was as follows:

Sally Mann, American photographer: September 24, 1992
Douglas Crimp, American historian: October 23, 1992
Mike & Doug Starn, American artists: November 3, 1992
Richard Benson, American photographer: November 16 & 17, 1992
Bernd & Hilla Becher, German conceptual artists: January 15, 1993
Stephen Livick, photographer: February, 1993
Marian Penner-Bancroft, Canadian photographer: March 5, 1993
Sabastião Salgado, Brazilian photojournalist: April, 1993

Item consists of 2 audio cassettes recording a talk given by author Phillipe Neague on the topic of 19th & 20th century French documentary photography Eugène Atget. This talk took place at the National Gallery of Canada in French.

File contains advertisements and articles about the Phototeria and the Photette (the photographic disks the photo booth produced) from "Automatic Age" and "Coin Machine Journal", magazines that promoted automatic machines for sale as investments.

Item is a short synopsis of an interview that George Dunbar conducted with Bruce McCowan, , in preparation for a 2006 article on the photobooth.

Item consists of 4 audio cassettes of a talk American computer artist David Em gave about his work. The lecture took place at Ryerson University as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture Series.

Item consists of 5 cassettes with an audio recording of a talk given by photographic historians Naomi and Walter Rosenblum at Ryerson University, on the topic of documentary photography.

Item consists of 6 audio cassettes featuring a seminar led by American photographer Emmet Gowin as part of the Image Arts 1979-1980 lecture series at Ryerson University

Item consists of 2 audio cassettes with a talk given by photographer and faculty member Rob Gooblar in the Image Arts department.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette recording of a talk given by American photographer Eliot Porter in the Image Arts department.

Item is a photographic stereocard depicting a view of the Cliff House in San Fransicso.

Item is a photographic stereocard of Villa Serbelloni.

Item is a cabinet cart portrait of three children, photographed at H.A. Huber studio in Berlin Ontario.

Item is an electronic flash unit.

Seris contains catalogues, price lists and advertisements for various photographic equipment available for sale from various companies, with a concentration on early 20th century companies, particularly from the Rochester, New York area.

File contains users guides and information on motion picture equipment produced by Kodak and all it's subsidiaries.

Series contains pamphlets, press releases, invitations, and publications for photographic exhibitions in international museums, galleries, festivals, publishers and universities during 2010. See sub-series records for lists of venues.

Series contains pamphlets, press releases, invitations, and publications for photographic exhibitions in international museums, galleries, festivals, publishers and universities during 2012.

Series contains images to accompany Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th edition. Topics include sculpture, architecture, painting, and photgoraphy from ancient to modern. Slides are housed in 2 binders, with index included.

Series contains images of photographs from the collestion of the National Gallery of Canada, in 3 binders. Index is included.

Series contains images of photographs from the collestion of the National Gallery of Canada, in 1 binder. No index is included.

Series contains cameras that use film to capture moving images for display. While still image cameras expose one image at a time on photographic film, motion picture cameras take a series of images (or frames) on long strips of film that are then played back using a projector. The speed at which the film is projected matches that which it was taken, a speed (or frame rate) of 24 frames per second was long the standard in the motion picture industry, and is enough to appear to the human eye as motion and not simply a string of still images. Most of the cameras in this series are for amateur or "home movie" use.

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Item is a postwar model camera, made in occupied East Germany. is possibly a variant of the VX 500 , but not exactly like it. The prism can be removed, shutter speeds are B, Flash, 1/30 to 1/500 sec, double flash sync contact at left side, lens is West German Schneider Zreuznach Xenon 50mm f1.9.

Item is a brown moulded plastic box camera designed by Eastman Kodak employee Arthur H. Crapsey Jr. for use with 127 film (4x6 cm exposures). The camera features a fixed speed rotary shutter and plastic lens. Item does not include the flash unit. This model was made in Canada, at the Canadian Kodak plant in Toronto.

Item is a manual focus, folding 35mm camera with Synchro-Compur lens. Made in Germany. An instruction book is included. Made in Germany at Kodak AG.

This series consists of original and duplicate early cameras from the beginning of the history of photography. Based on the basic design of the camera obscura and produced between about 1820 and 1870, these simple devices were usually solid or sliding box cameras with uncomplicated lenses. The shutter was normally outside of the lens, in the form of a lens cap that was simple removed and replaced for exposure, or a rotating metal plate on the front of the lens, which held the aperture. These cameras mainly predated dry plate and flexible film photography, and were used to take Daguerreotype, wet-plate and salted paper photographs.

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Item is a small, wooden camera obscura with a single meniskus lens to demonstrate function of matt glass focusing screen and focal length. It is a replica built in the style of the small "mousetrap" cameras designed by William Henry Fox Talbot in the mid 1830's. They were simple wooden boxes with a single lens used to expose paper negatives, sensitized by silver nitrate (the calotype or Talbotype process). Exposures often took hours, and Talbot had several of the cameras made by a local joiner near his country home in Laycock, Wiltshire.

Cameras of this kind were used during the 18th and 19th century by artists and travelling tourists to sketch landscapes and buildings. A piece of transparent paper was placed on the matte screen. One could now trace the outlines of the subject as a guide for later elaborate sketching or painting. It was the predecessor of photographic cameras which, after 1839, could record the image by the reaction of chemical substances to light. Later the simple meniscus lenses were replaced by more corrected lens elements.

Item is a wood and brass folding tailboard wet plate field camera, likely of English manufacture, for 10.7 x 8.2 cm (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation with square bellows, hinged ground glass focusing screen, and no shutter. Bellows are extended by twin tracks. The slide out lens board has a mounted brass lens, of unidentified manufacture, with rotating aperture wheel and leather lens cap.

The camera is very similar in design to a 1/4 wet plate camera model designed by W. Morley, London, but does not have the identifying makers marks.

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, for 4 1/4" x 3 1/4" or quarter-plate exposures on glass plates. Camera bellows are extended and clipped in place with a keyhole slug and focused using a track. The removable lens board has a mounted f6 brass Perken, Son & Rayment lens with no shutter.

File contains documents related to the Photographic Historical Society of Canada and other camera clubs. Kodak Canada had a longstanding relationship with the PHSC and hosted the organization's 25th anniversary celebration. File includes: flyers and other promotional material for PHSC events; membership forms; a copy of the Sept/Oct 1999 25th anniversary special issue of Photographic Canadiana; a PHSC calendar for 2000; a flyer for "Old time" photo portraits produced by PHSC member Wayne Sproul; a brochure for the Toronto Camera Club lecture series; lists of camera clubs in Canada; and other ephemera.

Commencing in 1973, the Kodak Lecture Series Fonds contains audio and video recordings of lectures presenting the work of photographers, filmmakers, photo-based and new media artists, curators and visual media theorists.
A series of lectures at the School of Image Arts (then known as the Photographic Arts Department) was begun by professor Phil Bergerson in 1975 to support the school's unique curriculum. Bergerson wanted to expose his students to new artists and ideas around photography by inviting internationally known artists, curators and theorists to discuss the art of creating, collecting and curating photography. These lectures were financially supported by Ontario Arts Council Grants and ticket sales. The first series (Photographic Perspectives) was extreamly popular, and Bergerson continued to organize the lectures for the next 9 years.
Kodak Canada Inc. stepped in to sponsor the series in 1984, allowing students and the photographic comminity of Toronto to attend all lectures in the series without charge. The series was re-named the Kodak Chair Lecture series (1986-2007), and motion picture and, over time, video and new media artists and theorists joined the line-up of speakers.
Throughout the series, the lectures were documented, on audiocassette and then video tape. In 2009, the lectures began to be streamed online and archived on the RyeCast websites (https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/1/page/Channels.aspx). In 2002, the School of Image Arts received funding from the Canada's Digital Collections (CDC) program, through Industry Canada, to create an online multi-media database of over 200 of the participants, using images and footage captured during the lectures. The project, entitled "Images and Ideas: 25 Years of the Kodak Lecture Series", was completed in 2002 and hosted on the Library and Archives Canada server, along with thousands of other local and national digital projects. The Canada's Digital Collections website is no longer live, but is archived at the Government of Canada website: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/E/Alphabet.asp
In addition to the Kodak Lectures, the fonds contains the audio recordings of the proceedings of the Canadian Perspectives Conference (1979), a Critique Workshop with Gary Winnogrand (1981), a Critical Writing Workshop with A. D..Coleman (1982), the proceedings of the August Sander Symposium (1982) and the Symposium on Photographic Theory (1983).

Item is an audio recording of Pter Bunnell's lecture, covering activities at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Susan Sontag's book "On Photography".

File consists of audio recordings of a symposium on the topic of German documentary and portrait photographer August Sander, held in the Image Arts Department at Ryerson University in 1982. Speakers include: central European historian István Deák; curator Ute Eskildsen; photographer, theorist and critic Alan Sekula; and art critic Rosalind Krauss.

Item consists of 2 audio cassettes of a lecture given by photographer Steve Krongard about his work. Given at Ryerson University as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture Series.

Item consists of 2 audio cassettes of a lecture given by photographer Joyce Weiland about her work. Given at Ryerson University as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture Series.