Category: Photography Collection

Item Reference: 006636
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Photographic developing tray with tongs
Date: c. 1960s
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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

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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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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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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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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Item Reference: 006595
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Scale for measuring developing chemicals (powder form). The body of the scale is metal, with the holders being glass and attached with thread, which is intact. The frame is missing.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 006594
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Scale for measuring developing chemicals (powder form). The scale is metal, with the holders being brass and attached with thread, which has broken. There is a tassel attached to help discern whether the scales are level. The weight is brass Missing frame.
Date: c. 1920s
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Item Reference: 006593
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Glass tubes used in a darkroom, some are open on both ends suggesting they were used in a pipette fashion, others would have been used for measuring chemicals. Most are without markings, but one measures in cubic centimetres
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 006592
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnson thermometer stirring rod in original cardboard box with a textured finish, inside is the thermometer and instruction and warning pamphlets. The thermometer is housed in a cardboard tube to allow for stirring, though differs from the instructions description of a black plastic mould
Date: c. 1950
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