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Achromatic stereoscope viewer

Item is a wooden and brass stereoscope with wooden hood cover. 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 box type viewer which folds into it's own storage case. Additional reflector can be placed in adjustable brass arms to illuminate transparencies with its white or mirrored side. Viewer is mounted on underside of the lid case. Once inverted and lowered into the box the base becomes the the cover. Lock on either side designed to hold object in place. Later versions of this object included storage units for both viewer and slides. Such as a vertical model able to adjust the viewer to a convenient height and a horizontal cabinet to house stereoviews.

Written on lenses: Achromatic Smith Beck & Beck; Stereoscope 31 Cornell London.

Austin Healey Sprite MKIII (car sub-series)

Print with white border, shows car in studio. Recto caption: "Austin Healey Sprite MKIII, 1098 c.c. engine, 616 h.p. (gross) at 5, 750 r.p.m. New deluxe cockpit. New suspension. Copyright free. Austin press office, Longbridge, Birmingham, Priory 2101. neg. no. 120038." Recto inscriptions include cropping instructions, "55/mm June."

Baby Hawkeye

Item is a small box camera for 4 x 6.5 cm (1.57" x 2.55") exposures on 127 format roll film. Manufactured in England circa 1936, the camera is an all-metal box with a unidentified lens and a simple Kodak shutter. It has a simple wire viewfinder.

Baby portrait.

Item is a baby portrait. Black text below photograph reads, 'Weston & Son, Dover & Folkestone'. Black text on back of card reads, 'Photographed From Life by Lambert Weston & Son. Waterloo Crescent, Dover. Sandgate Road, Folkestone.'

Lambert Weston & Son

Biunial Magic Lantern

A large biunial mahogany and brass magic lantern. Biunial or double lens projectors have two separate optical systems that allow transition effects such as dissolves between slides.

Box Ensign 2 1/4 B

Item consists of a sheet film wooden and cardboard box camera with black leatherette covering, for 3.25" x 2.25" negatives. The camera has a rear opening door for loading and a folding wire frame finder and uses an achromatic meniscus lens with an everset shutter and a periscopic lens in the everset shutter. The camera has dual reflex finders.

Brownie Six-20 Camera Model D

Item is a metal box camera, for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on 620 film. It was a continuation of the Six-20 Brownie cameras but was renamed Brownie Six-20. The Model D camera features flash contacts.

Canterbury cathedral and girl

Two pairs of photographs originally grouped together. Two photographs are of a girl seated on a miniature chaise longue in front of garden wall, and two photographs are of the interior of Canterbury Cathedral. The cathedral photographs have both been written on verso in pencil "Canterbury Cathedral," and individually in ink, "Presbytery and Archbishop Bourchier's Tomb" and "Effigy of the Black Prince from his Tomb."

Shields, Lorne

Carte de visite album

Brown leather cover embossed with black and gold designs. Spine also embossed with stripes and lettering- "Album." Simple metal clasp. Front leaf and title page included. White pages with window opening and gold border. Brown fabric binding.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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"

H.M.S. Superb Voyage album

Decorated blue cover with green pages. Photographs inserted into openings in pages. Handwritten notations in black ink. Some loose photographs; back indicate they were postcards.

Inside front cover: "Photographs taken from H.M.S. Superb during her voyage under sealed orders from Rosythe (Scotland) to take supreme command of the allied fleets in the Mediterranean and Near East, arrange the Armistice with Turkey and capture the German fleet in the Black Sea."

Themes include: exercises on the deck, uniformed sailors and marines, British Marines Guard of Honour to Sultan, German fleet surrendering and held captive, French flagship.

Locations include: Malta, Mundros, Grecian Archipelago, "River Clyde", Sea of Marmara, Golden Horn in Turkey, Sultan's Winter Place, Constantinople, Bosphorus, Sebastopol - Black Sea, Balaclava Bay - Crimea,

Hawk-Eye Cameras for sale by Gall & Lembke

One pamphlet detailing Hawk-Eye cameras for sale at Gall & Lemke in Union Square. The Hawk-Eye camera was first produced by the Boston Camera Company until 1890, when the Blair Camera Company purchased the company. Eastman Kodak then purchased the Blair company in 1907, and continued to produce the popular Hawk-eye models.

The Blair Camera Co.

Helioscopic Magic Lantern

A Helioscopic Magic Lantern with its original three-wick oil light tank. This model was created by English lantern and slide manufacturer and retailer Walter Clement Tyler, who opened a shop in London in 1885. The Helioscopic is one of Tyler's best known lantern, which went through several models. This lantern has the registration number 75681

Walter Tyler

Hockley Sole House album

Brown faux snake skin cover, bound with two screws. Brown pages. No notations.Photographs are glued to pages. Majority of pages are empty, no photographs.

Themes: Hockley Sole, group and individual portraits, architecture.
Accompanying material: 2 pages, each with 2 photographic reproductions, appear ripped from magazine or other publication; documentation obtained from the British Library Document Supply Centre about Hockley Sole.

House of Parliament, London

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Printed on slide "Houses of Parliament London" on one side, and on the other printed in gold on black background "C.T. Milligan, Magic Lantern Manuf'r, No. 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa." Sticker with a Y on it. Thinner wood frame with paper or thin cardboard pasted over top. Image of the Parliament building in London, England.

Ilford Contact photographic paper

Item is an envelope of Ilford Photographic Paper, single weight, extra hard, glossy producing 2 1/4 x 2 1/2 inch prints. Originally contained 25 sheets. Package has been opened and used. There are now 2 packages of black foil wrapped papers inside. Label glued to front of package gives retailer as "Kwick Studios Ltd. Photographers, and Photographic Supplies 262 Heathway Dagenham, Essex".

Ilford Limited

Ilford colour filter

Small grey envelope packaging, opened and empty, for Ilford gelatin film filters for daylight use. Produced by Dufaycolor according to sticker on back. 3x3 inch.

Ilford Limited

Ilford commercial ortho films medium speed

"Ilford commercial ortho films medium speed" printed on box label in brown ink with green and brown graphics; stamped "1 dozen," "7x5," and serial number "C06537A 26." The box is empty except for a cardboard insert.

Ilford Limited

Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern

A black tin Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern with handle and crooked chimney.

Carpenter marketed his Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern as a consumer version of the famous Phantasmagoria lantern shows that simulated ghost and spirit projections during the late 1700 and early 1800s. The name is a misnomer since Phantasmagoria refers to a type of projection rather than a type of lantern. The handle on the lantern was meant to accompany a larger professional magic lantern show with a small, mobile projector, or for small scale uses.

Carpenter & Westley

J-B Ensign [Junior Box Ensign]

Item is a simple box camera with a leatherette covering, marked as J-B Ensign on the front. The camera uses 2 1/4B (E20) rollfilm for 6x9cm exposures. It has a meniscus lens, a two-speed shutter, and two reflecting type viewfinders.

Kodachrome II colour movie film for daylight

Boxes of Kodachrome II Colour Movie Film for double 8mm roll cameras. Both films are sensitized for daylight exposures. The larger box gives directions to process before Oct. 1969, the smaller one before Nov 1972. There is a sticker on the larger box with a price from Simpson's department store: 3.99. The larger box has been opened, but still contains film and sheet of folded paper with instructions.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Brownie 127

Item is an eye-level box camera with Bakelite body and rounded edges. Lens is a Meniscus f 14, 65mm and the shutter is single speed, 1/50th.

Kodak Duaflex II

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 620 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder; it is a simple box camera design. The f8 lens has a 3 aperture settings.

Kodak No. 2 Hawkette

Item is a brown Bakelite folding camera with cloth bellows, for 2 ¼" x 3 ¼" exposures on 120 roll-film. Camera is fixed focus, and has a rotating brilliant viewfinder, for landscape and portrait orientation. According to David Purcell, this model was produced in the UK for product giveaways schemes and not available for direct sale.

Kodak Limited (England)

Kodak Photo fx

Item is a small hand-held black plastic camera with red slide lens cover, and built in flash for use with 35 mm film. Camera is in original packaging with film and three project books with slots for photographs to be inserted into the story. Marketed towards children.

Kodak Velox paper

Item is an envelope of Kodak Velox paper, white, smooth glossy single weight, for 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch prints. WSG.3S. Contains 25 sheets. Package has been opened, some sheets of printing paper remain. Printed instructions that would have been folded inside a package of Kodak Velox paper.

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