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D21_001786 Kodak Instamatic 50

Item Reference: 001786
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Plastic camera with black casing and a silver front, the first in Kodak’s popular Instamatic range of cameras. Features a connector for flashbulbs and two shutter speeds (1/40 secs and 1/90 secs), though only the first is syncable to flash. Takes 126 film at 28mm x 28mm.
Date: 1963-1966
Further Information:  Kodak Instamatics enjoyed immense popularity as low-end, easily accessible ‘point-and-shoot’ cameras throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This popularity extended to the easy-loading 126 film that the Instamatic range utilised. The Instamatic line was in production til 1988 and 126 film did not cease production until 2008
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D21_001784 Quartz 16mm Cine Camera

Item Reference: 001783
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Quartz Zoom 16mm Cine Camera, made in the USSR, with leather case, handbook, and case of lens filters
Date: 1967
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Quarz-zoom booklet and instructions — D21_001784_14

D21_001783 Argus 8mm Cine Camera

Item Reference: 001783
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Argus 814 Super Eight 8mm Cine Camera, in a red velvet bag and a black leather carrying case. The camera is black with silver detailing The camera shoots film on 8mm, with no sound. There is manual focusing and utilises both manual and automatic focusing
Date: 1966-1967
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D21_001782 Imperial Delta 127 Camera

Item Reference: 001782
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Black plastic camera with attached flashbulb, though this was a detachable accessory, in original cardboard box packaging manufactured by Imperial in Chicago. The camera features a single shutter speed and take 127 film, at 4cmx4cm
Date: c. 1964
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Links: Example of photos taken with an Imperial Delta 127

D20.2_006636 Developing Dish with Tongs

Item Reference: 006636
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Photographic developing tray with tongs
Date: c. 1960s
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D22_006604 Johnson J-20 Developing Tank

Item Reference: 006604
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic cylindrical developing tank with film spiral and inner core. Lid features calculation conversions for developing times.
Date: 1949-1951
Further Information:  Does not feature the spring in the core that was introduced in 1951
Links: PDF of instructional manual

D22_006603 Patterson Contact Printer and Safelight

Item Reference: 006603
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Yellow plastic Paterson contact printer and safelight, with black power cord, also three red printing masks, a caution note, and in original red box with a textured exterior. Also in the box were two Ilford-branded darkroom clips
Date: Mid-to-late 1950s
Further Information:  Paterson darkroom products were represented under the R. F. Hunter Ltd banner, as shown on the caution note – Paterson did not start trading purely under their own name until the mid-1960s. The product packaging does not bear its distinctive logo, introduced in 1963. It is the R. F. Hunter logo that appears on the red box.
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D22_006598 Needles in Envelope

Item Reference: 006598
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Seven needles of varying thickness and brands, and various uses, enclosed within a small paper envelope that at one point held 25 needles. The branded needles are John James and Sons and Milward and Sons, both based in Redditch. The envelope appears to have been repurposed as it says ’25 needles’ in blue pen, the original use for the envelope may have been to do with money or work.
Date: c. Early 1920s
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D22_006597 Meccano Piece

Item Reference: 006597
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal piece from a Meccano set with two small bolts still attached Date: c. mid-twentieth century
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D22_006596 Envelope of Five Envelopes

Item Reference: 006596
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Envelope of five negatives depicting scenes of the coast, including fleet ships and fishing boats.
Date: c. mid-1940s
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