Tag: 1900-1910

Item Reference: 006695
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Polygraph drawing and designing stencil, made from metal, in original box. Made in Germany.
Date: c. 1900
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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: 001815
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Unbranded wooden plate holder, with book opening to load the plates and two draw slides to expose plates of different sizes, with the side marked ‘1’ having an attachable reducing frame.
Date: c. 1900
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Item Reference: 001806
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Kodak film tank in a wooden dark box. The tank is tin and cylindrical with a lid and has an apron and reel inside. The box is varnished wood, painted matte black inside with a wooden spool attached and one tin take-up spool, two tin turning handles, and one tin film puller to be used in the development process.
Date: 1907-1913
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Item Reference: 001771 
Category: Photography 
Format: Artefact 
Description: Adjustable metal lens for a magic lantern image projector.  
Date: c. 1900 
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Item Reference: 001798
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Lens for a Magic Lantern Projector
Date: c1900s
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