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Carved wood wall plaque depicting Lenin

Wooden wall plaque, rectangle in shape, with relief carving depicting Lenin in profile, wearing a Soviet era army cap now commonly known as 'Lenin's cap style'. On verso, a faint purple stamp filled out by hand with pencil. It reads: Ukrainian SSR. Lenin. July '70.

Chamber of Busts, Vatican

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Sticker on glass handwritten in ink "550 Chambre de Bustes au Vatican." Sticker on wood in ink "Chamber of Busts Vatican Rome Italy" same in pencil on wood frame. Image of inside the chamber of busts in the Vatican, walls lined with statues/busts.

Charter of Paris for a New Europe

Copy of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed at the 1990 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe by attendees. This includes Helmut Kohl, Federal Chancellor of Germany; George Bush, President of The United States of America; Franz Vranitzky, Federal Chancellor of Austria; Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium; Jelyu Jelev, President of Bulgaria; Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada; George Vassiliou, President of Cyprus; Poul Schluter, Prime Minister of Denmark; Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, Prime Minister of Spain; Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland; Francois Mitterrand, President of France; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Constantin Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece; Jozsef Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary; Charles J. Haughey, Taoiseach of Ireland; Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland; Giulio Andreotti, President of the Council of Ministers and Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communitites, Italy; Hans Brunhart, Head of Government of Liechtenstein; Jacques Santer, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister of Malta; Jean Ausseil, Minister of State of the Principality Monaco; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway; Ruud F. M. Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Tadeusz Mazowiecki, President of the Council of Ministers Poland; Anibel Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister of Portugal; Ion Iliescu, President of Romania; Gabriele Gatti, Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs San Marino; Cardinal Agostiono Casaroli, Secretary of State of His Holiness The Vatican; Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden; Arnold Koller, President of the Confederation, Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police for the Swiss Confederation; Vaclav Havel, President of the Czeck and Slovak Federal Republic; Turgut Ozal, President of Turkey; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the U. S. S. R.; and Borisav Jovic, President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe

Chillon

photomechanical print of painting mounted on card. Depicts castle, lake with sailboat, surrounded by mountains. Recto caption, bottom right: "Direnmann & Zurich." Recto inscription, bottom: "Chillon."

Church of the Theatine, Munich

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Sticker with a Y on wood frame. Handwritten in ink on sticker on the glass "6240 Church of the Theatine, Munich." Printed on sticker is "Levy & Cie Sucrs de Ferrier, P.F. and Soulier - Paris." On opposite side of slide, written in gold letters "49 Nassau Street, New York." The initials CS in bottom left corner (stickers to you) on actual image. Image is of a church dome with two spires.

Cinematograph

A hand-cranked 35 mm and small glass slide projector. This cinematograph was made after 1908 by the limited company Société Anonyme des Etablissements Demaria - Lapierre, when the two Lapierre brothers were obliged to amalgamate with the photographic manufacturer Jules Demaria. Cinematographs always had the ability to show loops, film strips from which the begin and end were glued together. For this purpose the upper reel was mounted above the apparatus on an extending bar. Longer films could also be showed but since there was not take-up reel the film would fall onto the floor or in a bag. The intermittent film transport was brought about by a rotating buckled rod that repeatedly struck the film down.

Auguste Lapierre

City University, London, United Kingdom

This file contains a photographic print of an architect researching using a technique developed at London's City University which uses a special camera and three-dimensional programming to create a computer model which enables viewing from all sides of the structure.

Cologne

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Handwritten on sticker on glass "Church Cologne," but the words are difficult to decipher. Sticker of a Y on wood frame. Image of a town, view of rooftopes, a square, a man with horse & buggy, a church in the background.

Cologne Cathedral

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black. Handwritten in ink on a sticker on the glass slide is "2285 Cathedral of Cologne," and in print above "J. Levy & Cie. Suc. de Perrier P.F. & Soulier, Paris." Sticker on wood frame of a Y. Image is of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

Contaflex II

Item is a 35mm, single lens reflex camera manufactured by the Zeiss Ikon Company. This model, introduced in 1954, has a Tessar 45mm f2.8 lens and synchro-compur leaf shutter. The camera has a built-in, uncoupled selenium exposure meter and a telephoto lens attachment that slides over the original lens (Teleskop 1.7 x NR 2507248).

Contarex Super

Item is an oversized single-lens reflex, 35mm camera with many features. The contarex Super has a data back attached and a "wechsel magazine". Item serial number is 20.7856. it comes with a Zeiss Planar 55mm 1:14 lens. There is a polarizer for the normal lens in the case.

Contax 1c

Item is a 35mm rangefinder camera. Zeiss Tessar introduced in 1932 as a top quality 35mm rangefinder system. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Jana 5cm f2.8 lens (# 1428082). Metal horizontal focal plane shutter for exposures from 1/5 to 1/1000 sec. One film cassette is included.

Contax II

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish on top and trim. Winding and speed setting on top right, shutter speeds to 1/1250, and rangefinder and viewfinder windows combined. Lens is a Sonnar 50mm, 1:2.

Contessa-Nettel folding camera

Item is a Contessa-Nettel folding/bellows camera. Only the structure of the camera exists, it is missing a lens. The company Contessa-Nettel AG was a German company that existed between the years 1908 and 1919. The company was known for cameras with a focal plane shutter.

Coronet "3-D"

Item is an inexpensive plastic "3-D" stereo camera made by the Coronet Camera Company. The camera has a binocular viewfinder for 4 stereo pairs or 8 single exposures and uses 127 film for 4.5 x 5 cm exposures, featuring a single speed shutter, 1/50, and a twin f11 meniscus fixed-focus lenses.

Coronet Midget camera

Item is a molded walnut Bakelite camera with cast metal hardware and dual lenses. The front metal plate is cast with "CORONET, MIDGET, 16 mm FILM, MADE BY THE CORONET CAMERA CO. BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH PATENTS APPLIED FOR, DESIGN REGISTERED." The Moroccan leather case has the company logo and "MADE IN ENGLAND" in gold letterpress.

Counterpoint at the Comedy Theatre

Item consists of a program for a series of plays under the banner of Counterpoint: Soldier from the wars returning, by David Capton, Barnstable, by James Saunders, and A Night Out, by Harold Pinter. The performance was presented at the Comedy Theatre (UK) in November of 1961.

Culloden Moor

Item is an unmounted albumen print depicting battleground with large vertical stone markers and stone masonry watchtower. Forest in background. Recto caption "Culloden Moor. 2973. G.W.W."

Dinner in a cathedral

Item consists of a photograph mounted on white card with black letterpress at bottom edge, reading from left to right "J. Russell & Sons/ Photographers", "By special appointment to/ His Majesty the King.", "17, Baker Street. W. &/ 13, High St. Windsor." Photograph shows a long gothic style hall (probably the nave of a cathedral) laid out with tables for dining, and men seated at all the tables. Handwritten in pencil on the verso, "25.00" and "797113".

J. Russell & Sons

Documentary Films series

Series consists of biographical films about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), leader of the Soviet Union and father of Communism. These films were created and produced in the Russian Soviet State and reflect the ideals of the state and the popular interpretation of Lenin's life and work. The 17 film reels make up the following 4 movies: "Lenin is alive" (1969), "Lenin: pages of the biography" (1969), "Gorki Leninskie" (1984), "Lenin documents, facts, recollections" (1969). A DVD was added to the collection in 2010 that depicts the public speeches and demonstrations taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania during the dissolution of the Lithuanian Soviet State, including the tearing down of a statue of Lenin in the city centre.

Dry plate negatives

Item consists of 6 dry plate negatives of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York. They are contained in a A Lumiere & Ses Fils box for 4.5 x 10.7 cm silver bromide gelatin plates. The glass negatives have the image location written on them. Stamped on the bottom of the box is R 47617.

Dufaycolor flat film

Plain cardboard packaging with yellow and red checkerboard sticker for Dufaycolor flat film, opened and empty. Originally contained 6 cut celluloid film sheets at 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Packaging indicates the product was sensitized and sold by Ilford Limited. Film batch number was D375 830A.

Ilford Limited

Edith A. Murphy

Item is a portrait of woman. Gold text beneath photograph reads, 'Boissonnas, Geneve' Gold ink on back of card reads, 'Photographie Instantanee Medailles D'argent Zurich 1883, Stuttgart 1887. Boissonnas 4 Quai de la Poste Geneve La Maison N'est Pas a L'Angle. Tous les cliches sont conserves'. Inscription in black ink reads, 'Property of Edith A. Murphy, Geneva Suitz. '89'

Boissonnas Photographie Instantanee

Edixa 16

Item is a subminiature camera for 12 x 17 mm exposures on unperforated or single perforated 16 mm film in Super 16 cartridges. The camera has a coupled accessory lightmeter and a detachable metal chain. The item has a programmed shutter B, f2.8/30 to f22/150, and uses a Schneider Xenar f2.8/25 mm lens. This camera has the inscription " Wirgin Wiesbaden-West-Germany". All Edixa 16 cameras with this inscription were made by Frank Werk.

Emperor William I

Note that the date is a guess determined by the reigne of Emperor William I. Lantern slide, wood frame with glass B&W slide - oval shape image. Looks to be a half tone from an engraving. Inscription in gold letters on the purple frame around the image "From J.G. Langguth, Manufacturer of Magic Lanterns and slides, Chicago, Ills." and a sticker in ink "Emperor William Germany." Sticker with the letter Y on wood frame.

England album

Item consists of brown, textured, hardcover, leather-bound album with decorative flower detailing on cover. Leather has worn off the spine. Pages are an off-white colour with decorative gold embossing and illustrative floral detail. Photographs slide in between two pieces of card that make each page and hold them in place.

Photographs are mostly portraits of one or two figures taken in studios across England, primarily around London, in towns and cities that include Brighton, Luton, Woburn, Tavistock, Bedford, Northampton and London. One photograph was made at J. C. Waler & Co. at 147 Yonge Street, Toronto.The address written inside the cover of the album is 61 High Street Ridgmont Bedford. Some notes and captions are written under and on the back of a few of the photographs in pencil and black ink. Inserted in the front page of the album are two loose pages with personal notes dated 1847 and 1881.

Studio names include: Chenhall & Son, The American Photo Co., W. Hall & Son, Powell Studios, T. Miller - Artist, Photo Artist - Lewes,

Names: W, M, Francis, T.G. Roberts The County Tea Exchange and Provision Warehouse [address was 45 & 46 High Street]

Shields, Lorne

England album

Green cover bound by knotted green string. The word "Photographs" on the cover in gold lettering. Black pages - photographs held in with black photo corners. Some loose photographs. Many pages blank, missing photograph.

Photographs are mostly of people and various family snapshots in Great Britain and France. Some activities included are biking, picnicking, camping, canoeing, and many amateur shots from around the home. There are also photographs taken of the military, and of school composites.

Dates incude: May 27th, 1945 (back of a loose photograph).

English wetplate tailboard camera

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.

English wood and brass field camera

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, likely of English manufacture, for (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation, bellows are extended and clipped in place with keyhole slugs and focused using twin tracks. The fixed lens board has a mounted f8 brass Taylor Taylor and Hobson brass lens with no shutter.

Ensign Box Camera

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Ensignette No.1

Item is a folding camera for 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (3.8 x 5.7 cm ), exposures on Ensign E1 or Eastman Kodak no. 128 size roll-film. The camera has black leather bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model, with two medallions on the front plates, was manufactured in 1911 or later (earlier versions had plain front plates).

Ensignette No.2

Item is a black painted brass body folding camera for 3" x 2" exposures on Ensign 2E roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model has a brass body and wheel stop aperture dating it from prior to 1920, when the company switched to aluminum.

Ettore Scola interview

File contains a transcribed copy of an interview conducted with Italian film director Ettore Scola by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. The file also contains 2 photographs of the director on set, a description of Sommers' book project, a list of interview questions, a hand-written letter from Scola to Sommers (in italian), a type-written letter from Sommers to Scola, and a printed French language promotional publication for the 1974 Italian film Nous Nous Sommes Tant Aimés (C'eravamo Tanto Amati / We all Loved Each Other so Much), which includes an interview with Scola and Agenore Incrocci (screen play writer) about the film.

Sommers, Frank

Europe album

Album covered in blue fabric. Light brown pages with photographs glued smoothly on. Handwritten labels in black ink directly onto album pages.
Places: Rauceby Hall in Lincolnshire, English homes, Bottom Castle in Yorkshire, the St. John's College and Chapel at the University of Cambridge, the Swiss Alps, views of Paris - Palaise du Luxembourg, Palaisides Tulleries, Versailles, La Madelaine, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, L'Opera, [Parc] St. Cloud -, Mer de Glace in France, military, Norway - such as Nidaros Cathedral - and Lapland region, and various other imagery from England, Switzerland, Italy, France and Norway.

Themes: portraits, scenery and landscapes, cameras , 4-plate panorama of Lyngenkjeden, architecture - castles, homes, cathedrals.

Dates included: 1872, 1873, 1890.

Shields, Lorne

Europe album

Black cover, embossed gold letters ("Photographs"). Bound with black string. Photographs mounted with glue. Black pages. Notations in white ink. "The All Black Album" manufactured by Johnson, London. No dates.

Locations include: Lisbon, Setubal, Portugal; Genoa, Spezia, Carara, Leghorn (in Italian - Livorno), Pisa, Italy; Marseilles, France.

Themes include: cargo loading and unloading at docks, market, tourist sightseeing, street views, scenic views.

Europe, Drawings

This file contains photographic prints of an illustration of Santorini, Hell scene, Munich, 1662, and of a negative of a plan for he Hotel Continental in Stockholm, Sweden.

Exakta VX 500

Item is a 35 mm. film camera designed by Karl Nüchterlein and produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk company in Dresden, Germany. The Exakta has interchangeable lenses, 1/30 - 1/60 Horz. Shutter and an Accura Diamatic 1:2.8 28mm lens attached.

Exakta VXIIa

Item is a 35mm camera, the first with interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses. This one has a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 2/58 lens (serial A# 5545070).

Exakta Varex 500

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.

Family group sitting in studio car prop

Item consists of a brown coloured cabinet with a cream coloured verso. Adhered to the recto is an image of a man, woman, and two young girls sitting in a cardboard prop of a late nineteenth-century automobile. An older woman leans against the hood of the vehicle. All are wearing hats. The backdrop to this studio setting features a landscape. Recto reads: "W. Lees / PHOTOGRAPHER (left) / 23 BATH ST. / PORTOBELLO. (right)" and the verso has "7.00" inscribed with graphite.

William Lees

Fed CTEPEO stereo camera

Item is a 35mm stereo camera with CdS metering. Manual or automatic exposure. 24 x 29mm images. Industar-81 F2.8/38mm lenses. Comes with leather pouch, sun shades, small parts, and hard plastic case.

Field of Lava, Mt Vesuvius, Italy

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Sticker on glass handwritten in black ink "Field of Lava From Mt. Vesuvius, Italy. Bay of Naples in the distance." Sticker on wood in ink "View field of lava Mt Vesuvius Italy." In pencil on wood frame "Italy." Image of rocks in foreground (field of lava) and water in distance (Bay of Naples).

Filius-Kamera

Item is a black plastic camera, for 3 x 4 cm exposures on Bantam or Juka film and was a novelty camera marketed towards young amateur photographers. The actual image size is 32 x 40 mm. The camera includes a Meniscus f11/50mm lens.

Finnish fifty pennies coin

copper coloured coin with lion and swords on one side, large number and tree on the other. Writing on both sides. Edges are ridged. Recto reads: Republic of Finland - 1990. Verso reads: 50 pennies.

Foka, folding camera

Item consists of a Foka folding camera with a F. Deckel-Munchen leaf shutter and a Rodenstock Trinar Anastigmat 1:4.5 f=10.5cm lens. The maker of the shutter, F. Deckel, was a German company based in Munich. The Foka cameras were imported from Germany by a Dutch photo and film equipment dealer from the Balda factory in Dresden.

Folding Filma camera

Item is a black leather covered folding camera with leather bellows, for exposures on 120 roll-film. Camera has a Marvel shutter with 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, B and T settings, an aperture range from6 6-45, and a brilliant viewfinder. A focus guide plate from 5 feet to infinity is mounted on the camera rail.

Folding camera with Compur leaf shutter

Item is a folding (bellows) plate camera with a Compur leaf shutter. Compur leaf shutters were manufactured from 1912 to 1935 when the Compur-Rapid model was released. Shutter is an earlier, dial set model. Item features a collapsing front bellows, and a leatherette body. Likely made by Voightlander. Lens is marked Steinnell Munchen Deppelanastigmat Unofocal 1:6.8 f=13.5 cm No. 91257.

Folding camera with Ibso shutter

Item is a folding (bellows) plate camera with an Ibso shutter . Ibso shutters were manufactured by Gauthier from 1908 until 1931 when Zeiss took over the company and offered faster models. Three blade diaphragm , spring powered, pneumatic exposure control. Speeds 1/100 - 1, B, T. Finger release at 7 o'clock, cable release socket at 11 o'clock. Item features collapsing front bellows, and a leatherette body. Likely made by Voightlander. Lens is marked Doppel-Anastigmat Veraplan 1:6.8 F=135 mm. Hugo Meyer & Co Goerlitz No. 18606.

Ford Consul 315 (car sub-series)

Glossy gsp with large white border. Photograph of a retouched photograph of an automobile against grey background. Recto has several crop marks in pencil and in black ink, "2" in bottom left corner. Verso top centre, black ink stamp: "Photography by P E & E Photo Engravers and Electrotypers Ltd." Verso has pencil cropping marks and inscriptions in pencil. Top centre: "61-418"; top right: "55/mm- Sept."; centre: "20 1/2 picas, 30R, B"; bottom right: "100 Scr. 3inc half," "consul 315," "$10". In blue ink, bottom right; "B996"

Forum Triangular, Pompeii

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Handwritten on slide in black ink "765 Fragment de forum Triangulaire Pompei" in french. Handwritten in pencil on wood frame "Fragment of Triangular Forum, Pompeii, Italy." Handwritten in pencil on sticker on the wood frame "..of Forum Triangulaire.." rest of sticker ripped off. Image of ruins, columns and buildings from Pompeii, Italy.

Foth-Flex II

Item is a medium format, twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format film. Lens is an Anistigmant 75mm, F2.5 with a cloth focal plane shutter (speeds from 2 second to 1/500th). This model of camera was available in both left and right-handed models.

France

This file contains a photographic print of various archetechtural projects and buildins in France, including Le Viaduc in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, designed by Ricardo Bofll Taller de Arquitectura.

Frederick The Great

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black. Handwritten in ink on a sticker on the glass slide is "4318 Vue sous les tilleuls a Berlin," in french. Note that "sous les tilleuls" translates to "under the linden trees" which in German is "unter den linden," and this is the name of the street the statue is on. Sticker on the wood frame handwritten in ink "Frederick the Great." Handwritten in pencil on actual wood frame "Statue of Frederick the Great." Image is of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin, Germany.

French Magic Lantern

Lantern with a black lacquered lantern body, a brass adjustable thread objective lens and an extendable chimney. This type of magic lantern would be used for presentations in large halls, and for educational uses in schools.

The manufacturer is most likely Laterne Universelle Clement et Gilmer (C&G), a French company established in the late 1800s in Paris. They produced lanterns with similar ornamental cutouts, and their lantern models had chimneys with adjustable heights.

Laterne Universelle C&G Paris

G.B.N. Magic Lantern

Simple magic lantern model mounted on a wood base. This lantern has the GBN (Gerbruder Bing Nurenberg) diamond trademark and the patent D.R.G.M. mark impressed on the back. The flap on the back of the lantern has a mirror to reflect the interior light source. This object is missing its chimney, but the 'Pharus' Model lantern by GBN should have a distinguishable crescent top chimney.

Gebruder Bing

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