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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D22_006589 Cheese Strainer
Item Reference: 006589
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ceramic cheese strainer, evidently used in a dark room due to being kept with other developing tools and the developing chemical stains.
Date: 1930s
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D22_006588 Ensign Trident Film Development
Item Reference: 006588
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign ‘The Trident’ film developer, to be used in tandem with a developing dish which would be sold with it, heavy ceramic, to develop rolls of film in a darkroom environment. residue of developing chemicals can be seen along the tool where it was left in the developing chemicals in the dish. Would continue to be produced by. In the No. 1 size, and had previously been manufactured by Butcher and Son before 1926 merger with Ensign. The registered design number was acquired in 1906, which would’ve been when this item was first put to market under the Butcher and Son name.
Date: 1930s
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D22_001818 Ensign Miniature Optiscope Slide Projector Set with Two Slides
Item Reference: 001818
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign Miniature Optiscope and slide projector set with leather travel case. The Optiscope has a metal exterior, adjustable focus lens, and is electricity-powered with a bulb still inside. Also are, still in their boxes, a heat-resistant transparent glass plate, and a filter for colour protection to be fitted over the focus lens. Also are two slides, depicting a page from a book and a photograph of a woman about to be shot from a canon as published in The Strand magazine 1897
Date: 1930s
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D22_001813 Ilford Darkroom Safe Lights
Item Reference: 001813
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ilford darkroom safelights, in box. The safelight is a red glass pane with fabric trim, serial number 902, S variety.
Date: c. 1930s
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D19_006580 Kodak Brownie 620 Camera
Item Reference: 006580
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Kodak Brownie 620 Junior camera, made in Britain, takes 620 film, leather-coated cardboard box camera with portrait setting; with original user manual booklet.
Date: c. 1934
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D18_001721 Family Photograph Album
Item Reference: 001721
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Family photographs in small card-stock covered album, family unknown
Date: c. 1930s
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D18_001703 “Amateur Photography” Book
Item Reference: 001703
Category: Photography
Format: Book
Description: News Chronicle hardcover book, titled Amateur Photography, A Practical Handbook for the Amateur
Date: 1935
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D20.2_001775 Kodak portrait attachment
Item Reference: 001775
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Kodak portrait attachment “number 3” in original metal tin.
Date: c. 1930s
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D20.2_001772 “Diaphot” exposure meter
Item Reference: 001772
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: “Diaphot” exposure meter; made in Germany by Zeis Ikon, in Leather case.
Date: c. 1930
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