Item Reference: 001570
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two well-loved teddy bears; the larger one with amber safety eyes, plastic nose, and pink stitched mouth; the smaller one with brown safety eyes, plastic nose, and black stitched mouth.
Date: c. 1960s
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Item Reference: 001787
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: Plastic camera with black casing and a silver strip along the top of the front. Features setting for in sun (1/40 sec exposure) and dim light/flash (1/10 sec exposure) as shown by simple illustrations around the lens. Features a connector for flash cubes. The example still has 126 film loaded into it, which is 28mm x 28mm
Date: 1968-1970
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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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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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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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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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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Item Reference: 006636
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Photographic developing tray with tongs
Date: c. 1960s
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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: 006591
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Parts of a Johnson developing kit with remnants of a label, with instructions and information on the back. Includes a white plastic funnel, a orange plastic measuring beaker, black plastic developing tray with a lipped rim, and small paper instructional manual for use of unitol. The label is for Johnsons’ product universol which was used as a fixer in the development process, though no other universol products are seen in the kit.
Date: 1960s to early 1970s
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Item Reference: 001819
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Perrocolor slide binders, box of 25, in original packaging, frames and ring-glass are separate to be joined once the slide is inserted. Manufactured in Switzerland
Date: 1960s
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